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CVE-2008-5657

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Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in Quassel Core before 0.3.0.3 allows remote attackers to spoof IRC messages as other users via a crafted CTCP message.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00354.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46195

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3164

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31973

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497884

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497882/30/0/threaded

http://wouter.coekaerts.be/site/security/quassel-ctcp

http://secunia.com/advisories/32692

http://secunia.com/advisories/32470

http://quassel-irc.org/node/89

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506550

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-12-17

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01449

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