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CVE-2010-5077
server/sv_main.c in Quake3 Arena, as used in ioquake3 before r1762, OpenArena, Tremulous, and other products, allows remote attackers to…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 18% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
server/sv_main.c in Quake3 Arena, as used in ioquake3 before r1762, OpenArena, Tremulous, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (network traffic amplification) via a spoofed (1) getstatus or (2) rcon request.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 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 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 20120326 Traffic amplification via Quake 3-based servers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=4391.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-2442 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://www.urbanterror.info/forums/topic/27825-drdos/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665656 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.games.ioquake3/961 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120326 Re: CVE-2010 Request: quake3 / openarena-server: DDoS by processing 'getstatus' and 'rcon' packets (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.ioquake.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1694 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2010-5041 (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-2010-5077)Record last updated .