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CVE-2008-7070

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2009-08-25 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in the URI handler in KVIrc 3.4.2 Shiny allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a " (quote) followed by command line switches in a (1) irc:///, (2) irc6:///, (3) ircs:///, or (4) and ircs6:/// URI. NOTE: this might be due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-2951.

Affected Platforms

Kvirc Kvirc

Weakness Type

CWE-94

References