CVE-2019-20918
An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free...
An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to fully connect to a server.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
6.5
An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to fully connect to a server.
- Record
CVE-2019-20918- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C - Weakness
- CWE-416
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to fully connect to a server.
- Record
CVE-2019-20918- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2019-11451 No score
An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to fully connect to a server.
- Record
EUVD-2019-11451- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-3c6j-x3h2-c2j2 No score
An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free...
An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to fully connect to a server.
- Record
GHSA-3c6j-x3h2-c2j2- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
6.5
An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to fully connect to a server.
- Record
CVE-2019-20918- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2019-20918 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Inspircd, published September 11, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.49%, the 74th percentile. No source names a fixed version.