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CVE-2013-0272

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-0272 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the MXit protocol plugin within Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.7. This flaw allows remote servers to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted, long HTTP header. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is moderately severe, requiring medium attack complexity but potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.10.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0286 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.6.6-17.el5_9.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.7.9-10.el6_4.1
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: pidgin

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-0272Moderate

pidgin: MXit protocol stack-based buffer overflow when processing HTTP headers

Feb 13, 2013

References

hg.pidgin.im / pidgin/main/rev/879db2a9a59c
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00007.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17474
pidgin.im / news/security
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/57951
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1746-1