vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2012-1257: pidgin: libpurple no way to restrict "private" messages from being sent over session dbus

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 20, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

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

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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