CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0006

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-06-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-06-25
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

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 configurations

• xchat xchat 1.4.2 • xchat xchat 1.4.3

References