CVE-2018-7053 describes a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Irssi versions prior to 1.0.7 and 1.1.1, affecting various distributions including Canonical and Debian. This flaw arises when SASL messages are processed out of sequence. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a severe risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts over the network with low attack complexity. Despite its high severity and significant community discussion (10 mentions), there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:irssi:irssi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:irssi:irssi:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.