VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-3694

medium
Published 2014-10-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.4

Description

The (1) bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the (2) bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

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
suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —
12.3 Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.10.10-1
sid Fixed 2.10.10-1
forky Fixed 2.10.10-1
bullseye Fixed 2.10.10-1
bookworm Fixed 2.10.10-1
7.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pidginpidgin{"endIncluding":"2.10.9"}
pidginpidgin2.10.0
pidginpidgin2.10.1
pidginpidgin2.10.2
pidginpidgin2.10.3
pidginpidgin2.10.4
pidginpidgin2.10.5
pidginpidgin2.10.6
pidginpidgin2.10.7
pidginpidgin2.10.8

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.