CVE-2010-2785
The IRC Protocol component in KVIrc 3.x and 4.x before r4693 does not properly handle \ (backslash) characters, which allows remote…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 7.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- KVIrc 4.0 - '\r' Carriage Return in DCC Handshake Remote Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34385remote, linuxpublished 28 Jul 2010Verified
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Timeline
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By redhat
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 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 | Medium6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.6% · top 5.4% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330111 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-11524 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 40796 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 66648 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/changeset/4693 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100729 Re: CVE Request -- KVIrc -- Remote CTCP commands execution via specially-crafted CTCP parameter (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:014 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100728 CVE Request -- KVIrc -- Remote CTCP commands execution via specially-crafted CTCP parameter (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 40727 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://svn.kvirc.de/kvirc/ticket/858 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-11506 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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-2010-2789 (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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