CVE-2014-3697 describes an absolute path traversal vulnerability in Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.10 on Windows. This flaw allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files to a user's system by embedding a drive name within a tar archive used for smiley themes. With a CVSS score of 6.4, this vulnerability is moderately severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to unauthorized file modification and denial of service. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the security community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.10.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.