CVE-2008-2841

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-94 Code Injection

Publication date:

24/06/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in XChat 2.8.7b and earlier on Windows, when Internet Explorer is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the --command parameter in an ircs:// URI.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

6.80

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:xchat:xchat::::::::		2.8.7b (including)

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CVE-2008-2841

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools