4.3

CVE-2011-4170: gnome empathy Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 4.3v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2011-4170
Published 23-10-2011Last modified 16-09-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-4170 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in gnome empathy. EPSS estimates a 0.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
17/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.90%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 23-10-2011
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme_adium_append_message function in empathy-theme-adium.c in the Adium theme in libempathy-gtk in Empathy 3.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted alias (aka nickname) in a /me event, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3635.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.90%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

59%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.90% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.90%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • empathy< 3.2.1.1-1
Gnome1 product
  • empathy≤ 3.2.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.21.1 | 0.21.2 | 0.21.3 | 0.21.4 | 0.21.5 | 0.21.5.1 | 0.21.5.2 | 0.21.90 | 0.21.91 | 0.22.0 | 0.22.1 | 0.23.1 | 0.23.2 | 0.23.3 | 0.23.4 | 2.23.6 | 2.23.90 | 2.23.91 | 2.23.92 | 2.24.0 | 2.24.1 | 2.25.2 | 2.25.3 | 2.25.4 | 2.25.90 | 2.25.91 | 2.25.92 | 2.26.0 | 2.26.0.1 | 2.26.1 | 2.26.2 | 2.27.1 | 2.27.1.1 | 2.27.2 | 2.27.3 | 2.27.4 | 2.27.5 | 2.27.91 | 2.27.91.1 | 2.27.92 | 2.28.0 | 2.28.0.1 | 2.28.1 | 2.28.1.1 | 2.28.1.2 | 2.28.2 | 2.29.1 | 2.29.2 | 2.29.3 | 2.29.4 | 2.29.5 | 2.29.5.1 | 2.29.6 | 2.29.90 | 2.29.91 | 2.29.91.1 | 2.29.91.2 | 2.29.92 | 2.29.93 | 2.30.0 | 2.30.0.1 | 2.30.0.2 | 2.30.1 | 2.30.1.1 | 2.30.2 | 2.30.3 | 2.31.1 | 2.31.2 | 2.31.3 | 2.31.4 | 2.31.5 | 2.31.5.1 | 2.31.6 | 2.31.90 | 2.31.91 | 2.31.92 | 2.32.0 | 2.32.0.1 | 2.32.1 | 2.32.2 | 2.33.1 | 2.33.2 | 2.33.3 | 2.33.4 | 2.34.0 | 2.91.0 | 2.91.1 | 2.91.2 | 2.91.3 | 2.91.3.1 | 2.91.4 | 2.91.4.1 | 2.91.4.2 | 2.91.4.3 | 2.91.5 | 2.91.5.1 | 2.91.6 | 2.91.6.1 | 2.91.90 | 2.91.90.1 | 2.91.90.2 | 2.91.91 | 2.91.91.1 | 2.91.92 | 2.91.93 | 3.0.0 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.2.1 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.4 | 3.1.5 | 3.1.5.1 | 3.1.90 | 3.1.90.1 | 3.1.91 | 3.1.92 | 3.2.0.1

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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