CVE-2006-2082

high

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Quake 3 engine, as used in products including Quake3 Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, when the sv_allowdownload cvar is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files from the server via ".." sequences in a .pk3 file request.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26347

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17924

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433349/100/0/threaded

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/880

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-May/045906.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-05-10

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00692