Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information Affecting libpurple-tcl package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBPURPLETCL-1330761
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Dec 2011

Introduced: 20 Dec 2011

CVE-2012-1257  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-319  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 libpurple-tcl.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpurple-tcl package and not the libpurple-tcl package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Pidgin 2.10.0 uses DBUS for certain cleartext communication, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a dbus session monitor.

CVSS Scores

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