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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00

Updated: 2002-05-31T09:00:00

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


Link: CVE-2002-0006

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2017-10-10T01:30:03.343


Link: CVE-2002-0006

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