Published: 25/06/2002 Updated: 10/10/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 755

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

XChat 1.8.7 and previous versions, including default configurations of 1.4.2 and 1.4.3, allows remote malicious users 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.

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zen-parse found a vulnerability in the XChat IRC client that allows an attacker to take over the users IRC session It is possible to trick XChat IRC clients into sending arbitrary commands to the IRC server they are on, potentially allowing social engineering attacks, channel takeovers, and denial of service This problem exists in versions 142 ...

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/3830/info X-Chat is a graphical client for IRC It requires the GTK+ toolkit, and is available for many Linux and Unix operating systems If a CTCP ping request includes escaped newline characters and additional IRC commands, these commands may be executed by the vulnerable client It is possible to gain o ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-099 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-005.html http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/3806 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000453 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3830 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101060676210255&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7856 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-099 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21210/

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