CVE-2015-10096 MEDIUM

CVE-2015-10096: Zarthus IRC Twitter Announcer Bot twitter_announcer.rb get_tweets command injection

Vendor Zarthus
Product IRC Twitter Announcer Bot
Weakness CWE-77
Published March 20, 2023
Last update August 6, 2024

CVSS base score

5.0/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Zarthus IRC Twitter Announcer Bot up to 1.1.0. This affects the function get_tweets of the file lib/twitterbot/plugins/twitter_announcer.rb. The manipulation of the argument tweet leads to command injection. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Upgrading to version 1.1.1 is able to address this issue. The patch is named 6b1941b7fc2c70e1f40981b43c84a2c20cc12bd3. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-223383.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 20, 2023 CVE published
August 6, 2024 Record updated