IMFreedom Security

Description

The XMPP protocol plugin can be tricked into establishing an insecure connection by a malicious man in the middle by causing libpurple to use the older IQ-based login and then not offering TLS/SSL. The “require TLS/SSL” option was introduced in 2.2.0.

Mitigation

Respect the “require TLS/SSL” preference for this type of connection.