CVE-2008-2957: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: version 2.0.0 only

Published 2008-07-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.