What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-3185

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

gtkutils.c in Pidgin before 2.10.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a file: URL in a message.

Affected products

• Pidgin: through 2.9.0; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0 (+37)

References

• http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/29484df15413fe3bbd21bbfcef26a55362055a81/with/5749f9193063800d27bef75c2388f6f9cc2f7f37/pidgin/gtkutils.c
• http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/5749f9193063800d27bef75c2388f6f9cc2f7f37
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=55
• http://secunia.com/advisories/45663
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1025961
• http://www.insomniasec.com/advisories/ISVA-110822.1.htm
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/10
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/12
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519391/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49268

Get alerted when CVE-2011-3185 or the next vulnerability affects your stack