CVE-2013-6486: Pidgin

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gtkutils.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a message containing a file: URL that is improperly handled during construction of an explorer.exe command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-3185.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.7; 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 2014-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.