Cisco 9.9/10-severity bug: Patch these dangerous Jabber flaws for Windows, macOS
SEE: (TechRepublic Premium) Cisco says the bugs allow an attacker to "execute arbitrary programs on the underlying operating system with elevated privileges or gain access to sensitive information". Customers have no other option but to install the latest updates to prevent attacks. Norwegian security outfit Watchcom found earlier this year that Jabber was vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) through XHTML-IM messages. Jabber did not properly sanitize incoming HTML messages and instead ...
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