PT-2011-4876 · Gnome · Empathy

Published 2011-10-23 · Updated 2012-05-13 · CVE-2011-4170

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 (aka nickname) in a /me event.

Recommendations For Empathy versions 3.2.1 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4170

Affected Products

Empathy

References · 5

• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662035 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4170 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4170 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4170 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4170 · Security Note