CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-6486

9.3 HIGH Published 2014-02-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-02-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

gtkutils.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a message containing a file: URL that is improperly handled during construction of an explorer.exe command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-3185.

Affected configurations

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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References