CVE-2013-0271

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The MXit protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.7 might allow remote attackers to create or overwrite files via a crafted (1) mxit or (2) mxit/imagestrips pathname.

Affected products

Pidgin: through 2.10.6; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0 (+44)

References

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/a8aef1d340f2
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00006.html
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=65
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1746-1
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18386
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/a8aef1d340f2
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00006.html
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=65
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1746-1
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18386

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