CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-2957

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2008-07-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-07-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL.

Affected configurations

• pidgin pidgin 2.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References