PT-2016-7233 · Inspircd+2 · Inspircd+2

Antoine Beaupré · Published 2016-09-08 · Updated 2025-04-02 · CVE-2016-7142

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions InspIRCd versions prior to 2.0.23

Description The issue allows remote attackers to spoof certificate fingerprints, enabling them to log in as another user by sending a crafted SASL message when the m sasl module is used with a service that supports SASL EXTERNAL authentication.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.23, update to version 2.0.23 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-7142

DSA-3662-1

USN-7405-1

Affected Products

Inspircd

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

References · 17

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-25269 · Vendor Advisory
• http://inspircd.org/2016/09/03/v2023-released.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7142 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7142 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7142 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-20917 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7142 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7405-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3662-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7142 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3662 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7405-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7142 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7142 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/commit/74fafb7f11b06747f69f182ad5e3769b665eea7a · Note