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CVE-2013-6490: pidgin

CVSS: 10.0v2.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2013-6490
Published 06-02-2014Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-6490 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in pidgin. EPSS estimates a 14.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
10.0/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
14.81%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4
DSA-2859-1DSA-2859-2MGASA-2014-0034RHSA-2014:0139

Timeline

  1. 06-02-2014
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length header, which triggers a buffer overflow.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

14.81%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

97%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 14.81% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
14.81%

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
  • pidgin< 2.10.8-1
Pidgin1 product
  • pidgin≤ 2.10.7 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.1.0 | 2.1.1 | 2.2.0 | 2.2.1 | 2.2.2 | 2.3.0 | 2.3.1 | 2.4.0 | 2.4.1 | 2.4.2 | 2.4.3 | 2.5.0 | 2.5.1 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.3 | 2.5.4 | 2.5.5 | 2.5.6 | 2.5.7 | 2.5.8 | 2.5.9 | 2.6.0 | 2.6.1 | 2.6.2 | 2.6.3 | 2.6.4 | 2.6.5 | 2.6.6 | 2.7.0 | 2.7.1 | 2.7.2 | 2.7.3 | 2.7.4 | 2.7.5 | 2.7.6 | 2.7.7 | 2.7.8 | 2.7.9 | 2.7.10 | 2.7.11 | 2.8.0 | 2.9.0 | 2.10.0 | 2.10.1 | 2.10.2 | 2.10.3 | 2.10.4 | 2.10.5 | 2.10.6

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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