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CVE-2013-0273

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-0273 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.7, specifically within the Sametime protocol plugin. A remote server can crash the application by sending a crafted packet that exploits improper termination of long user IDs. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only resulting in an availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage 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

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0260 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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-2013-0273Moderate

pidgin: Meanwhile protocol missing nul termination of long Lotus Sametime usernames

Feb 13, 2013

References

hg.pidgin.im / pidgin/main/rev/c31cf8de31cd
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%3A18340
pidgin.im / news/security
Vendor Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1746-1