CVE-2013-6490
Status: ModifiedHigh (10)—PoC
Severity10High · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability15 %higher than 97% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitAvailableProof of concept on GitHub (unverified)
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.
CVSS
- Base score
- 10
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 15 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 97
- Score date
- 10/31/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Public exploits
Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.
- Proof of concept on GitHub (unverified) · List of proofs of concept on GitHub
⚠️ GitHub proofs of concept are not verified: some are fake or contain malware. Never run them outside an isolated lab.
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-119
References
Show 12 references
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6bd2dd10e5da
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=84
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65195
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6bd2dd10e5da
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=84
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65195
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
Raw JSON (NVD)
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