CVE-2002-0006

published 2002-06-25

CVE-2002-0006: XChat 1.8.7 and earlier, including default configurations of 1.4.2 and 1.4.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary IRC commands as other clients via…

Priority P3 37 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C P I P A P

EXPLOIT

XChat 1.8.7 and earlier, including default configurations of 1.4.2 and 1.4.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary IRC commands as other clients via encoded characters in a PRIVMSG command that calls CTCP PING, which expands the characters in the client response when the percascii variable is set.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
xchat	xchat	—	—
xchat	xchat	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

vendor_redhat 7.5 HIGH

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