Vulnerability CVE-2002-0006
Published: 2002-06-25   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Xchat -> Xchat 

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