VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2010-3438

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.65%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-11-12
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

libpoe-component-irc-perl before v6.32 does not remove carriage returns and line feeds. This can be used to execute arbitrary IRC commands by passing an argument such as "some text\rQUIT" to the 'privmsg' handler, which would cause the client to disconnect from the server.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-134

Primary references