CVE-2006-2236
Buffer overflow in the Quake 3 Engine, as used by (1) ET 2.60, (2) Return to Castle Wolfenstein 1.41, and (3) Quake III Arena 1.32b allows…
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 7.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in the Quake 3 Engine, as used by (1) ET 2.60, (2) Return to Castle Wolfenstein 1.41, and (3) Quake III Arena 1.32b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long remapShader command.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Quake 3 Engine 1.32b - 'R_RemapShader()' Remote Client Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 1750remote, linuxpublished 5 May 2006Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 1750 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.8% · top 5.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 20060508 Two independent vulnerabilities (client and server side) in Quake3 engine and many derived games (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 19984 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1676 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 17857 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-200605-12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 20065 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- quake3-remapshader-client-bo(26264) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1750 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 25279 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-2237 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-2236)Record last updated .