CVE-2003-1020 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in irssi versions prior to 0.8.9, specifically within the format_send_to_gui function in formats.c. This flaw allows remote IRC users to crash the irssi client. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received negligible community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:irssi:irssi:0.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:irssi:irssi:0.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:irssi:irssi:0.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:irssi:irssi:0.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:irssi:irssi:0.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.