CVE-2016-1000030: Pidgin
Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Pidgin version <2.11.0 contains a vulnerability in X.509 Certificates imports specifically due to improper check of return values from gnutls_x509_crt_init() and gnutls_x509_crt_import() that can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via custom X.509 certificate from another client. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.11.0.
Affected products
Published 2018-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.