CVE-2008-7070

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-08-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in the URI handler in KVIrc 3.4.2 Shiny allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a " (quote) followed by command line switches in a (1) irc:///, (2) irc6:///, (3) ircs:///, or (4) and ircs6:/// URI. NOTE: this might be due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-2951.

Affected products

Kvirc: 3.4.2

References

http://retrogod.altervista.org/kvirc_342_cmd.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32410
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498557/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32410
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46779
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7181
http://retrogod.altervista.org/kvirc_342_cmd.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32410
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498557/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32410
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46779
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7181

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