CVE-2018-17019

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-17019 · Published 13/09/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-17019 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting bro (bro).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
bro bro	`≤ 2.5.5`	No fix yet

In Bro through 2.5.5, there is a DoS in IRC protocol names command parsing in analyzer/protocol/irc/IRC.cc.

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