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CVE-2007-6122

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6122 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting IRC Services versions before 5.0.63 and 5.1.x before 5.1.7. A remote attacker can crash the daemon by providing a long password to the default_encrypt function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.0.62CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:irc_services:irc_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 5.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:irc_services:irc_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0208 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
lists.ircservices.za.net / pipermail/ircservices/2007/005558.html
lists.ircservices.za.net / pipermail/ircservices/2007/005564.html
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/27761
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28090
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200712-12.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/38591
ircservices.za.net / Changes.txt
securityfocus.com / bid/26517
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3959