CVE-2011-3185: Pidgin

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gtkutils.c in Pidgin before 2.10.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a file: URL in a message.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.9.0; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; …

Published 2011-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.