CVE-2010-2785
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5EPSS 7.6%EU EUVD
The IRC Protocol component in KVIrc 3.x and 4.x before r4693 does not properly handle \ (backslash) characters, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary CTCP commands via vectors involving \r and \40 sequences, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2451 and CVE-2010-2452.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 7.6% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2789)
- Published
- August 2, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2789 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- kvirc / kvirc
- kvirc / kvirc
- kvirc / kvirc
- kvirc / kvirc
- kvirc / kvirc
- kvirc / kvirc
- kvirc / kvirc
- kvirc / kvirc
- kvirc / kvirc
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330111
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044625.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044643.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128041011428629&w=2(Patch)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/28/1(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40727(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40796(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.osvdb.org/66648
- https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/changeset/4693(Patch)
- https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/ticket/858(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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