Vulnerability CVE-2013-6486
Published: 2014-02-06

Description:
gtkutils.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a message containing a file: URL that is improperly handled during construction of an explorer.exe command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-3185.

Type:

CWE-DesignError

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Pidgin -> Pidgin 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65189
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=81
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b2571530fa8b
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