Vulnerability in Xchat

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 encoded characters in a PRIVMSG command that calls CTCP PING, which expands the characters in the client response when the percascii variable is set.

EPSS: 0.081 (94.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Xchat — versions 1.4.2, 1.4.3
  • N/a — versions n/a

References