Directory traversal vulnerability in the client in HexChat 2.11.0 allows remote IRC servers to read or modify arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the server name.
Vendor
hexchat project vulnerabilities
3 published CVES affecting hexchat project, from public sources (CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV).
- Total
- 3
- Critical
- 0
- High
- 2
- Medium
- 1
- Low
- 0
- Unscored
- 0
- CISA KEV
- 0
Products
Latest hexchat project CVEs
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HighCVSS 7.4 EPSS 9.5%
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HighCVSS 7.5 EPSS 34.1%
Stack-based buffer overflow in the inbound_cap_ls function in common/inbound.c in HexChat 2.10.2 allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of options in a CAP LS message.
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MediumCVSS 6.5
The ssl_do_connect function in common/server.c in HexChat before 2.10.2, XChat, and XChat-GNOME does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificat...
Sources: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV and public exploit-reference metadata. Product matching comes from the published CVE records. A proof-of-concept means public code exists; it is not evidence of exploitation.