CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-6453
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-02-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-88
Description
mIRC before 7.55 allows remote command execution by using argument injection through custom URI protocol handlers. The attacker can specify an irc:// URI that loads an arbitrary .ini file from a UNC share pathname. Exploitation depends on browser-specific URI handling (Chrome is not exploitable).
Affected configurations
• mirc mirc (< 7.55)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command weakness
References
- https://github.com/proofofcalc/cve-2019-6453-poc Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://proofofcalc.com/advisories/20190218.txt Third Party Advisory
- https://proofofcalc.com/cve-2019-6453-mIRC/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/proofofcalc/status/1097518413143003136 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46392/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.mirc.com/news.html Product
- https://github.com/proofofcalc/cve-2019-6453-poc Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://proofofcalc.com/advisories/20190218.txt Third Party Advisory
- https://proofofcalc.com/cve-2019-6453-mIRC/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/proofofcalc/status/1097518413143003136 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46392/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.mirc.com/news.html Product