CVE-2007-2951

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The parseIrcUrl function in src/kvirc/kernel/kvi_ircurl.cpp in KVIrc 3.2.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an (1) irc:// or (2) irc6:// URI.

Affected products

Kvirc Irc Client: 3.2.0

References

http://osvdb.org/37604
http://secunia.com/advisories/25740
http://secunia.com/advisories/26813
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-56/advisory/
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-02.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472441/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24652
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2334
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35087
https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/changeset/630/#file3
http://osvdb.org/37604

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