CPANSA-Poe-Component-IRC-2010-3438: POE-Component-IRC vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2019-11-12T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2019-11-12T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 9.8 Severity Critical
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

libpoe-component-irc-perl before v6.32 does not remove carriage returns and line feeds. This can be used to execute arbitrary IRC commands by passing an argument such as \"some text\\rQUIT\" to the 'privmsg' handler, which would cause the client to disconnect from the server.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-3438

Vulnerability Description

libpoe-component-irc-perl before v6.32 does not remove carriage returns and line feeds. This can be used to execute arbitrary IRC commands by passing an argument such as "some text\rQUIT" to the 'privmsg' handler, which would cause the client to disconnect from the server.

Weakness CWE-134 : Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
POE-Component-IRC less than 6.32
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 9.8 Critical
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Nov 12 00:00:00 2019 First release

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