CVE-2004-2595

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Id Software Quake Ii Server Linux: 3.20, 3.21

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-10/0299.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/13013
http://secur1ty.net/advisories/001
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011979
http://web.archive.org/web/20041130092749/www.r1ch.net/stuff/r1q2/
http://www.osvdb.org/11184
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11551
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17893
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-10/0299.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/13013
http://secur1ty.net/advisories/001
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011979

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