Resources Downloaded over Insecure Protocol Affecting pidgin package, versions [,2.10.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PIDGIN-2380362
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Nov 2019

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for pidgin.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resources Downloaded over Insecure Protocol. 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

version 3.1