Race condition in the XMPP library in Smack before 4.1.9, when the SecurityMode.required TLS setting has been set, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass TLS protections and trigger use of cleartext for client authentication by stripping the "starttls" feature from a server response.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-1224 Smack allows the bypass of TLS protections
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-66pq-hqv5-228g Smack allows the bypass of TLS protections
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:07:31.883Z

Reserved: 2016-12-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-10027

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-01-12T23:59:00.197

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-10027

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-11-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-10027 - Bugzilla

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