HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-3360

Bitchx vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
7.5%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
hook.c in BitchX 1.1-final allows remote IRC servers to execute arbitrary commands by sending a client certain data containing NICK and EXEC strings, which exceeds the bounds of a hash table, and injects an EXEC hook function that receives and executes shell commands.
Affected vendor
Bitchx
Affected product
Bitchx
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2007-06-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Bitchx Bitchx is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-3360.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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