CVE-2016-2087

PoC ×2—

CVSS 3.0

7.4 high

EPSS

10%p95

Published

Jan 18, 2017 (Jan 18, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: hexchat project
Products: hexchat
Weakness: CWE-22
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (9.5%)

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