Format string vulnerability in the WriteText function in agl_text.cpp in Milan Mimica Sparklet 0.9.4 and earlier allows remote attackers…

Description

Format string vulnerability in the WriteText function in agl_text.cpp in Milan Mimica Sparklet 0.9.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a player nickname.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.8% · top 6.8% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-134 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-134 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (10)

• 18949 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• sparklet-writetext-format-string(27603) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 1016443 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 20060706 Format string bug in Sparklet 0.9.4try3 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20974 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 27038 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• ADV-2006-2763 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/sparkletfs-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 18862 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2006-2695 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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 7 Aug 2024, 18:30 UTC.