HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2011-1412

Ioquake3 Engine vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.2%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
sys/sys_unix.c in the ioQuake3 engine on Unix and Linux, as used in World of Padman 1.5.x before 1.5.1.1 and OpenArena 0.8.x-15 and 0.8.x-16, allows remote game servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a long fs_game variable.
Affected vendor
Ioquake3
Affected product
Ioquake3 Engine
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2011-08-04

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 4.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2011-1412

  • Confirm whether Ioquake3 Ioquake3 Engine is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-1412.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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