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Pidgin < 2.6.5 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5298

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.

Description

The remote host is running Pidgin < 2.6.5. Such versions are potentially affected by an information disclosure vulnerability because the MSN protocol plugin axtracts the filename of a custom emoticon from an incoming request and uploads that file without correlating the filename to a valid custom emoticon.

Solution

Upgrade to Pidgin 2.6.5 or later.

See Also

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=42

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3596.en.html

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=42

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5298

Published: 1/12/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 43862

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:pidgin:pidgin

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0013

BID: 37524