PT-2011-4551 · Gnome · Empathy

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2011-10-23 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2011-3635

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Empathy versions 3.2.1 and earlier

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the theme adium append message function, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted alias.

Recommendations For Empathy versions 3.2.1 and earlier, update to a version later than 3.2.1 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of custom aliases to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-3635

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10383-1

Affected Products

Empathy

References · 13

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747599 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3635 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46510 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-3635 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-3635 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3635 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662035 · Patch
• http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=739aca418457de752be13721218aaebc74bd9d36 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10383-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/76485 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/50323 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46939 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3635 · Note