Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2008-0285

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-0285 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting ngIRCd versions 0.10.x before 0.10.4 and 0.11.0 before 0.11.0-pre2. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a specially crafted IRC PART message, leading to an invalid dereference and causing the server to crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ngircd:ngircd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 0.11.0-pre1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ngircd:ngircd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0180 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-0285

ngircd: Remotely triggered crash

References

arthur.barton.de / cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ngircd/ngircd/src/ngircd/irc-channel.c
Exploit
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
ngircd.barton.de / doc/ChangeLog
secunia.com / advisories/28425
secunia.com / advisories/28673
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200801-13.xml
securityfocus.com / bid/27318