{"id":"CVE-2013-6490","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2013-6490","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T07:17:10.791Z","title":"The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length header, which triggers a buffer overflow.","description":"The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length header, which triggers a buffer overflow.","published":"2014-02-06T17:00:06.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:00:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":10,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["pidgin/pidgin"],"epss":{"score":0.14809,"percentile":0.96697,"date":"2026-11-04","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 14.8%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6bd2dd10e5da","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=84","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65195","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6bd2dd10e5da","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=84","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65195","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6490","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}