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Critical
CVE-2008-7070
Argument injection vulnerability in the URI handler in KVIrc 3.4.2...
Vulnerability Description
Argument injection vulnerability in the URI handler in KVIrc 3.4.2 Shiny allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a " (quote) followed by command line switches in a (1) irc:///, (2) irc6:///, (3) ircs:///, or (4) and ircs6:/// URI. NOTE: this might be due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-2951.
Impact Analysis
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References
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CVE-2007-2951
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Affected Vendor
kvirc
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kvirc
Vulnerable Versions:
3.4.2
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 25th, 2009
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
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Weaknesses (CWE)
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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
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