CVE-2014-3698
pidgin: remote information leak via crafted XMPP message
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · October 22, 2014
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
An information disclosure flaw was discovered in the way Pidgin parsed XMPP messages. A malicious remote server or a man-in-the-middle attacker could potentially use this flaw to disclose a portion of memory belonging to the Pidgin process by sending a specially crafted XMPP message.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 4.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 · 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CWE-201 · Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data