CVE-2006-3325

high

Description

client/cl_parse.c in the id3 Quake 3 Engine 1.32c and the Icculus Quake 3 Engine (ioquake3) revision 810 and earlier allows remote malicious servers to overwrite arbitrary write-protected cvars variables on the client, such as cl_allowdownload for Automatic Downloading and fs_homepath for the quake3 path, via a string of cvar names and values sent from the server. NOTE: this can be combined with another vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files.

References

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26889

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://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: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04262