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.
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:35:17.591Z

Reserved: 2002-01-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-0006

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-06-25T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-0006

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Severity :

Publid Date: 2002-01-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2002-0006 - Bugzilla

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