CVE-2006-1618

Doomsday vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

13.2%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Format string vulnerability in the (1) Con_message and (2) conPrintf functions in con_main.c in Doomsday engine 1.8.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an argument to the JOIN command, and possibly other command arguments.

Affected vendor

Doomsday

Affected product

Doomsday

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2006-04-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 13.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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