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CVE-2010-3088

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-10-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The notify function in pidgin-knotify.c in the pidgin-knotify plugin 0.2.1 and earlier for Pidgin allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a message.

Affected products

• Jianping Yu Pidgin-Knotify: through 0.2.1; 0.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0

References

• http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-knotify/issues/detail?id=1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/12/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/13/4
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336916
• http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-knotify/issues/detail?id=1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/12/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/13/4
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336916

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