CVE-2006-3324

critical

Description

The Automatic Downloading option in the id3 Quake 3 Engine and the Icculus Quake 3 Engine (ioquake3) before revision 804 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files in the quake3 directory (fs_homepath cvar) via a long string of filenames, as contained in the neededpaks buffer.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27486

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2569

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded

http://svn.icculus.org/quake3?rev=804&view=rev

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1171

http://secunia.com/advisories/20851

http://secunia.com/advisories/20401

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-06-30

Updated: 2026-04-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02532