The Windows dedicated server for the Unreal engine, as used by America's Army and America's Army Special Forces 2.8.2 and earlier, when…

Description

The Windows dedicated server for the Unreal engine, as used by America's Army and America's Army Special Forces 2.8.2 and earlier, when Punkbuster (PB) is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server hang) via packets containing 0x07 characters or other unspecified invalid characters. NOTE: this issue may overlap CVE-2007-4443. NOTE: this issue might be in Punkbuster itself, but there are insufficient details to be certain.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-189 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-189 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• americasarmy-bell-dos(36898) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 20071001 Unexploitable buffer-overflow in America's Army 2.8.2 through PB (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://aluigi.org/poc/aaboompb.zip (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 27015 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/aaboompb-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 3193 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 15:24 UTC.