CVE-1999-1569

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2001-07-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Quake 1 and NetQuake servers allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion or forced disconnection) via a flood of spoofed UDP connection packets, which exceeds the server's player limit.

Affected products

Id Software Quake: 1.9

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221101925989&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91012172524181&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/197268
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3051
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6871
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221101925989&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91012172524181&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/197268
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3051
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6871

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