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CVE-2016-2087
HIGH · CVSS 7.4
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-18T17:59:00.327 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:43:24.843

Summary

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.

Affected products

hexchat_project — hexchat

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References

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