PT-2017-18624 · Cgi:Irc · Cgi:Irc

Niklaus Schiess · Published 2017-06-06 · Updated 2017-06-13 · CVE-2017-8920

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CGI:IRC versions prior to 0.5.12

Description The issue concerns a lack of proper output encoding for user-supplied input from the R parameter in irc.cgi, which can lead to XSS.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.5.12, update to version 0.5.12 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-8920

Affected Products

Cgi:Irc

References · 4

• https://github.com/dgl/cgiirc/commit/46dd48442204207b52c16065ad67d294194afd8d · Patch
• http://cgiirc.org · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8920 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8920 · Security Note