Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Quake II server before R1Q2 on Linux, as used in multiple products, allows remote attackers to…

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Quake II server before R1Q2 on Linux, as used in multiple products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a download command with a full pathname for a directory in the argument, which causes the server to crash when it cannot read data.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.8% · top 13% 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 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 11184 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• http://web.archive.org/web/20041130092749/www.r1ch.net/stuff/r1q2/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1011979 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 11551 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• quake-path-dos(17893) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 13013 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://secur1ty.net/advisories/001 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20041027 Multiple Vulnerabilites in Quake II Server (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 8 Aug 2024, 01:29 UTC.