CVE-2001-0792

HIGH 7.5CVE-2001-0792 · Published 18/10/2001 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2001-0792 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting xchat (xchat).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.8%, higher than 86.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xchat xchat	`= 1.2.x`	No fix yet

Format string vulnerability in XChat 1.2.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed nickname.

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