CVE-2008-5657
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.10% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-12-17 20:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 11:04Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-12-17
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- cf367db41270348b692637a9c2d70759b07d989611ec8f985ef6cf468ae0fcd5
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com32470http://secunia.com/advisories/32470
- www.securityfocus.com20081028 Re: Quassel IRC: connection hijackinghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497884
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506550
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comquasselirc-ctcp-command-execution(46195)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46195
- www.securityfocus.com20081028 Quassel IRC: connection hijackinghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497882/30/0/threaded
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-3164http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3164
- wouter.coekaerts.behttp://wouter.coekaerts.be/site/security/quassel-ctcp
- quassel-irc.orghttp://quassel-irc.org/node/89
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-9658https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00354.html
- secunia.com32692http://secunia.com/advisories/32692
- www.securityfocus.com31973http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31973
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- quassel Fixed in 0.2~rc1-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- quassel Fixed in 0.2~rc1-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- quassel Fixed in 0.2~rc1-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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