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CVE-2006-4455

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-4455 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability in XChat versions 2.6.7 and earlier, specifically impacting Windows installations, which can be triggered remotely via the PRIVMSG command. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a potential crash of the affected application. While the vendor disputes its relevance to recent versions, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.6.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xchat:xchat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-2147 · Aug 8, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0499 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

forum.xchat.org / viewtopic.php
marc.info
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/28325
exploit-db.com / exploits/2124
exploit-db.com / exploits/2147
securityfocus.com / bid/19398
xchat.org