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CVE-2003-1433
Epic Games Unreal Engine 226f through 436 does not validate the challenge key, which allows remote attackers to exhaust the player limit…
Medium4.3EPSS 1.2%
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Description
Epic Games Unreal Engine 226f through 436 does not validate the challenge key, which allows remote attackers to exhaust the player limit by joining the game multiple times.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (5)
- 6771 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.pivx.com/luigi/adv/ueng-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ut-join-request-dos(11304) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20030205 Unreal engine: results of my research (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20030211 Re: Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .