CyberRota Analysis
This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.5. It may be remotely exploitable. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2012-2214
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.5
EPSS
2.20%
Original NVD Description
proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.