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CVE-2008-5657

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-12-17 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

• Quassel Core: through 0.3.0.2; 0.1.0, 0.2.0-alpha1, 0.2.0-alpha2, 0.2.0-alpha3, 0.2.0-alpha4, 0.2.0-alpha5 (+6)

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506550
• http://quassel-irc.org/node/89
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32470
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32692
• http://wouter.coekaerts.be/site/security/quassel-ctcp
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497882/30/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497884
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31973
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3164
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46195
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00354.html
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506550

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