Record summary

CVE-2016-2087 has a selected CVSS score of 7.4 (high); EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the client in HexChat 2.11.0 allows remote IRC servers to read or modify arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the server name.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBHexchat IRC Client 2.11.0 - Directory TraversalExploitDB exploitby PizzaHatHackerNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

PoC details

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