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CVE-2012-1257

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-319

Description

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

Affected products

• Pidgin: 2.10.0

References

• http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14830
• http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2011-December/010521.html
• http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14830
• http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2011-December/010521.html

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