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CVE-2013-6478

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6478 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.8, where a long URL displayed in a tooltip can cause the application to crash due to improper handling of wide Pango layouts. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a low-impact attack that requires user interaction (examining the tooltip) and moderate attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.10.7CPE 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

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0384 is in the 85th 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.6.6-32.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.7.9-27.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-6478Low

pidgin: DoS when rendering long URLs

Jan 28, 2014

References

hg.pidgin.im / pidgin/main/rev/2bb66ef1475e
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
pidgin.im / news/security
Vendor Advisory
pidgin.im / pipermail/support/2013-March/012980.html
pidgin.im / pipermail/support/2013-March/012981.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2859
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2100-1