CVE-2006-4455
Unspecified vulnerability in Xchat 2.6.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 5.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Xchat 2.6.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving the PRIVMSG command. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this vulnerability, stating that it does not affect 2.6.7 "or any recent version"
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB2 entries
- XChat 2.6.7 (Windows) - Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 2147dos, windowspublished 8 Aug 2006Verified
- XChat 2.6.7 (Windows) - Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 2124dos, windowspublished 7 Aug 2006Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 2124 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 2147 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.1% · top 7.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- xchat-privmsg-dos(28325) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.xchat.org/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 19398 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 2124 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 20060809 XChat <= 2.6.4-1 (win version) Remote Denial of Service Exploit (php) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://forum.xchat.org/viewtopic.php?t=2918 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 2147 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 1016687 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-4443 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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