CVE-2007-4442

Unreal Engine vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.8%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

Stack-based buffer overflow in the logging function in the Unreal engine, possibly 2003 and 2004, as used in the internal web server, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a request for a long .gif filename in the images/ directory, related to conversion from Unicode to ASCII.

Affected vendor

Epic Games

Affected product

Unreal Engine

CVSS vector

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

Published

2007-08-21

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 availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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