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CVE-2008-2841 json

Argument injection vulnerability in XChat 2.8.7b and earlier on Windows, when Internet Explorer is used, allows remote attackers to execute…

published 2008-06-24 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2834

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
15.4%
EPSS 15.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Argument injection vulnerability in XChat 2.8.7b and earlier on Windows, when Internet Explorer is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the --command parameter in an ircs:// URI.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-2841 updated

xchat: command execution when xchat is started from the browser

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-5795)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

15.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-5795 XChat 2.8.7b - 'URI Handler' Remote Code Execution (Internet Explorer 6/7) remote, 2008-06-13

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.