Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8547

Title: Quassel-Irc Quassel Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8547.

CWE Category CWE-17
Published Date Jan 08, 2016
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.36%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8547: The CoreUserInputHandler::doMode function in core/coreuserinputhandler.cpp in Quassel 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via the "/op *" command in a query.

Impacted Vendors

Q
quassel-irc 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174938.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174976.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00099.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/12/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/13/1 https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b8edbda019eeb99da8663193e224efc9d1265dc7 https://github.com/quassel/quassel/pull/153 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174938.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174976.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00099.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/12/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/13/1 https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/b8edbda019eeb99da8663193e224efc9d1265dc7 https://github.com/quassel/quassel/pull/153
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-8547 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.