Xchat vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.
Xchat has 12 published vulnerabilities across 2 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Xchat, with 12. If you run Xchat software, patch the exploited flaws first.
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Which Xchat products have the most vulnerabilities?
Xchat leads with 12 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.
Which Xchat vulnerabilities are being exploited?
This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.
None of Xchat's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Xchat flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 15%CVE-2008-2841Medium
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.
- 9.2%CVE-2000-0787High
IRC Xchat client versions 1.4.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by encoding shell metacharacters into a URL which XChat uses to launch a web browser.
- 9.0%CVE-2004-0409High
Stack-based buffer overflow in the Socks-5 proxy code for XChat 1.8.0 to 2.0.8, with socks5 traversal enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
- 8.1%CVE-2002-0006High
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...
- 7.7%CVE-2011-5129Medium
Heap-based buffer overflow in XChat 2.8.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long response string.
- 5.1%CVE-2006-4455Medium
Unspecified vulnerability in Xchat 2.6.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving the PRIVMSG command.
- 4.3%CVE-2012-0828Critical
Heap-based buffer overflow in Xchat-WDK before 1499-4 (2012-01-18) xchat 2.8.6 on Maemo architecture could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xchat client crash) or execute arbitrary code via a...
- 2.8%CVE-2001-0792High
Format string vulnerability in XChat 1.2.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed nickname.
- 2.6%CVE-2003-1000High
xchat 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a passive DCC request with an invalid ID number, which causes a null dereference.
- 2.4%CVE-2002-0382High
XChat IRC client allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a /dns command on a host whose DNS reverse lookup contains shell metacharacters.
All Xchat products we track.
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This directory lists the 1 Xchat products with at least one tracked version, of 2 in our catalogue.
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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.
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Our catalogue lists 12 published vulnerabilities across 2 products and 53 versions from Xchat.
None of Xchat's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
Xchat, with 12 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.
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