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CVE-2009-3085

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 1.69%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2009-09-08 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2009-3085
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
1.69%

Original NVD Description

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.2 does not properly handle an error IQ stanza during an attempted fetch of a custom smiley, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via XHTML-IM content with cid: images.