CVE-2006-3325

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-06-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

client/cl_parse.c in the id3 Quake 3 Engine 1.32c and the Icculus Quake 3 Engine (ioquake3) revision 810 and earlier allows remote malicious servers to overwrite arbitrary write-protected cvars variables on the client, such as cl_allowdownload for Automatic Downloading and fs_homepath for the quake3 path, via a string of cvar names and values sent from the server. NOTE: this can be combined with another vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files.

Affected products

Id Software Quake 3 Engine: 1.32b, 1.32c, icculus_803, icculus_804, icculus_805, icculus_806 (+4)

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/20401
http://secunia.com/advisories/20851
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1171
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18685
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2569
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26889
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27486
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/20401

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