CVE-2017-6903
In ioquake3 before 2017-03-14, the auto-downloading feature has insufficient content restrictions. This also affects Quake III Arena,…
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Description
In ioquake3 before 2017-03-14, the auto-downloading feature has insufficient content restrictions. This also affects Quake III Arena, OpenArena, OpenJK, iortcw, and other id Tech 3 (aka Quake 3 engine) forks. A malicious auto-downloaded file can trigger loading of crafted auto-downloaded files as native code DLLs. A malicious auto-downloaded file can contain configuration defaults that override the user's. Executable bytecode in a malicious auto-downloaded file can set configuration variables to values that will result in unwanted native code DLLs being loaded, resulting in sandbox escape.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/11a83410153756ae350a82ed41b08d128ff7f998 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3812 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/b248763e4878ef12d5835ece6600be8334f67da1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/b173ac05993f634a42be3d3535e1b158de0c3372 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK/commit/8956a35e7b91c4a0dd1fa6db1d28c7f0efbab2d7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/f61fe5f6a0419ef4a88d46a128052f2e8352e85d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://ioquake3.org/2017/03/13/important-security-update-please-update-ioquake3-immediately/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/376267d534476a875d8b9228149c4ee18b74a4fd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/b6ff2bcb1e4e6976d61e316175c6d7c99860fe20 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857699 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
- 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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