Vulnerability in Id Software Quake 3 Engine
CVE-2006-3325
client/cl_parse.c in the id3 Quake 3 Engine 1.32c and the Icculus Quake 3 Engine (ioquake3) revision 810 and earlier allows remote malicious servers to overwrite arbitrary write-protected cvars variables on the client, such as cl_allowdownload for Automatic Downloading and fs_homepath for the quake3 path, via a string of cvar names and values sent from the server. NOTE: this can be combined with another vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.048 (91.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.048 · newest: 0.048 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Id Software Quake 3 Engine — versions 1.32b, 1.32c, icculus_803
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/18685 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/20851 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/1171 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/20401 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27486 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2569 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26889 (vdb-entry)