Vulnerability in Id Software Quake 2 Server

CVE-1999-1229

Quake 2 server 3.13 on Linux does not properly check file permissions for the config.cfg configuration file, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink from config.cfg to the target file.

EPSS: 0.005 (38.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

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