National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2082

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in Quake 3 engine, as used in products including Quake3 Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, when the sv_allowdownload cvar is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files from the server via ".." sequences in a .pk3 file request.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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Solution

id Software has released patches to address this and other issues.}

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External Source: BID

Name: 17924

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17924

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060508 Two independent vulnerabilities (client and server side) in Quake3 engine and many derived games

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/433349/100/0/threaded

External Source: XF

Name: quake3-sv-allowdownload-directory-traversal(26347)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26347

External Source: SREASON

Name: 880

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/880

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20060508 Two independent vulnerabilities (client and server side) in Quake3 engine and many derived games

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-May/045906.html