CVE-2012-1257: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Pidgin 2.10.0 uses DBUS for certain cleartext communication, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a dbus session monitor.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: version 2.10.0 only

Published 2019-11-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.