CVE-2011-1412

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-08-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

sys/sys_unix.c in the ioQuake3 engine on Unix and Linux, as used in World of Padman 1.5.x before 1.5.1.1 and OpenArena 0.8.x-15 and 0.8.x-16, allows remote game servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a long fs_game variable.

Affected products

Ioquake3 Engine: all versions
Openarena: 0.8.x-15, 0.8.x-16
Worldofpadman World Of Padman: 1.5

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-07/0338.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063460.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/45417
http://secunia.com/advisories/45468
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8324
http://svn.icculus.org/quake3?view=rev&revision=2097
http://thilo.tjps.eu/download/patches/ioq3-svn-r2097.diff
http://worldofpadman.com/website/news/en/article/266/wop-1-5-1-1-hotfix-released-for-linux.html
http://www.osvdb.org/74137
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519051/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48915
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725951

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