CVE-2010-3088: Jianping Yu Pidgin-Knotify

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The notify function in pidgin-knotify.c in the pidgin-knotify plugin 0.2.1 and earlier for Pidgin allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a message.

Affected products

• Jianping Yu Pidgin-Knotify: up to and including 0.2.1; version 0.1 only; version 0.1.2 only; version 0.2.0 only

Published 2010-10-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.