VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-4170

medium
Published 2011-10-23 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme_adium_append_message function in empathy-theme-adium.c in the Adium theme in libempathy-gtk in Empathy 3.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted alias (aka nickname) in a /me event, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3635.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
bullseye Fixed 3.2.1.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnomeempathy2.33.4
gnomeempathy{"endIncluding":"3.2.1"}
gnomeempathy0.1
gnomeempathy0.2
gnomeempathy0.3
gnomeempathy0.4
gnomeempathy0.5
gnomeempathy0.6
gnomeempathy0.7
gnomeempathy0.8
gnomeempathy0.9
gnomeempathy0.11
gnomeempathy0.12
gnomeempathy0.13
gnomeempathy0.14
gnomeempathy0.21.1
gnomeempathy0.21.2
gnomeempathy0.21.3
gnomeempathy0.21.4
gnomeempathy0.21.5
gnomeempathy0.21.5.1
gnomeempathy0.21.5.2
gnomeempathy0.21.90
gnomeempathy0.21.91
gnomeempathy0.22.0
gnomeempathy0.22.1
gnomeempathy0.23.1
gnomeempathy0.23.2
gnomeempathy0.23.3
gnomeempathy0.23.4
gnomeempathy2.23.6
gnomeempathy2.23.90
gnomeempathy2.23.91
gnomeempathy2.23.92
gnomeempathy2.24.0
gnomeempathy2.24.1
gnomeempathy2.25.2
gnomeempathy2.25.3
gnomeempathy2.25.4
gnomeempathy2.25.90
gnomeempathy2.25.91
gnomeempathy2.25.92
gnomeempathy2.26.0
gnomeempathy2.26.0.1
gnomeempathy2.26.1
gnomeempathy2.26.2
gnomeempathy2.27.1
gnomeempathy2.27.1.1
gnomeempathy2.27.2
gnomeempathy2.27.3
gnomeempathy2.27.4
gnomeempathy2.27.5
gnomeempathy2.27.91
gnomeempathy2.27.91.1
gnomeempathy2.27.92
gnomeempathy2.28.0
gnomeempathy2.28.0.1
gnomeempathy2.28.1
gnomeempathy2.28.1.1
gnomeempathy2.28.1.2
gnomeempathy2.28.2
gnomeempathy2.29.1
gnomeempathy2.29.2
gnomeempathy2.29.3
gnomeempathy2.29.4
gnomeempathy2.29.5
gnomeempathy2.29.5.1
gnomeempathy2.29.6
gnomeempathy2.29.90
gnomeempathy2.29.91
gnomeempathy2.29.91.1
gnomeempathy2.29.91.2
gnomeempathy2.29.92
gnomeempathy2.29.93
gnomeempathy2.30.0
gnomeempathy2.30.0.1
gnomeempathy2.30.0.2
gnomeempathy2.30.1
gnomeempathy2.30.1.1
gnomeempathy2.30.2
gnomeempathy2.30.3
gnomeempathy2.31.1
gnomeempathy2.31.2
gnomeempathy2.31.3
gnomeempathy2.31.4
gnomeempathy2.31.5
gnomeempathy2.31.5.1
gnomeempathy2.31.6
gnomeempathy2.31.90
gnomeempathy2.31.91
gnomeempathy2.31.92
gnomeempathy2.32.0
gnomeempathy2.32.0.1
gnomeempathy2.32.1
gnomeempathy2.32.2
gnomeempathy2.33.1
gnomeempathy2.33.2
gnomeempathy2.33.3
gnomeempathy2.34.0
gnomeempathy2.91.0
gnomeempathy2.91.1
gnomeempathy2.91.2
gnomeempathy2.91.3
gnomeempathy2.91.3.1
gnomeempathy2.91.4
gnomeempathy2.91.4.1
gnomeempathy2.91.4.2
gnomeempathy2.91.4.3
gnomeempathy2.91.5
gnomeempathy2.91.5.1
gnomeempathy2.91.6
gnomeempathy2.91.6.1
gnomeempathy2.91.90
gnomeempathy2.91.90.1
gnomeempathy2.91.90.2
gnomeempathy2.91.91
gnomeempathy2.91.91.1
gnomeempathy2.91.92
gnomeempathy2.91.93
gnomeempathy3.0.0
gnomeempathy3.0.1
gnomeempathy3.0.2
gnomeempathy3.1.1
gnomeempathy3.1.2
gnomeempathy3.1.2.1
gnomeempathy3.1.3
gnomeempathy3.1.4
gnomeempathy3.1.5
gnomeempathy3.1.5.1
gnomeempathy3.1.90
gnomeempathy3.1.90.1
gnomeempathy3.1.91
gnomeempathy3.1.92
gnomeempathy3.2.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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