CVE-2016-2087 in HexChat

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 01/27/2016
• Disclosure: 01/18/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-95468 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-22 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 6.1
• EPSS: 0.13018
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2087
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2087
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-2087/