CVE-2014-3697: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the untar_block function in win32/untar.c in Pidgin before 2.10.10 on Windows allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a drive name in a tar archive of a smiley theme.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.9; version 2.10.0 only; version 2.10.1 only; version 2.10.2 only; version 2.10.3 only; version 2.10.4 only; …

Published 2014-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.