CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0787

7.5 HIGH Published 2000-10-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

IRC Xchat client versions 1.4.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by encoding shell metacharacters into a URL which XChat uses to launch a web browser.

Affected configurations

• xchat xchat 1.2.1 • xchat xchat 1.3.9 • xchat xchat 1.3.10 • xchat xchat 1.3.11 • xchat xchat 1.3.12 • xchat xchat 1.3.13 • xchat xchat 1.4 • xchat xchat 1.4.1 • xchat xchat 1.4.2 • xchat xchat 1.5.6 • xchat xchat 1.5.xdev

References