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CVE-2013-6490
The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 14.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 14.8% · top 3.3% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References6
- RHSA-2014:0139 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-2859 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-2100-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 65195 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=84 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6bd2dd10e5da (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-6293 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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