CVE-2002-0006
N/A
Published: April 2, 2003 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:56 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXchat
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 8%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000453Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101060676210255&w=2Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_HP
Source: [email protected]
http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/3806Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-005.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-099VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7856Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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