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Vulnerability details: VCID-j7ap-11qk-ufeb
Vulnerability ID VCID-j7ap-11qk-ufeb
Aliases CVE-2009-2694
Summary Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, leading to the remote execution of arbitrary code, unauthorized information disclosure, or Denial of Service.
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 0.3
Risk 0.6
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-228 Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
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Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2009-2694.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-2694
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2694
514957 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514957
542486 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542486
GLSA-200910-02 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200910-02
RHSA-2009:1218 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1218
USN-820-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/820-1/
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added Sept. 8, 2009
Description Pidgin MSN 2.5.8 - Remote Code Execution
Ransomware campaign use Known
Source publication date Sept. 9, 2009
Exploit type remote
Platform windows
There are no known vectors.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.96983
EPSS Score 0.34712
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:00:37.380984+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200910-02 38.0.0