CVE-2011-1412

critical

Description

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-23

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68869

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2011-1418

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725951

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48915

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519051/100/0/threaded

http://www.osvdb.org/74137

http://worldofpadman.com/website/news/en/article/266/wop-1-5-1-1-hotfix-released-for-linux.html

http://thilo.tjps.eu/download/patches/ioq3-svn-r2097.diff

http://svn.icculus.org/quake3?view=rev&revision=2097

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8324

http://secunia.com/advisories/45468

http://secunia.com/advisories/45417

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063460.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-07/0338.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-08-04

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: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04212