CVE-2004-2592

Quake II Server - Denial of Service via Negative Array Offset in Configstrings and Baselines

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2004-2592. PoCs published by Richard Stanway.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The provided text describes multiple vulnerabilities in Quake II, including boundary condition errors and access validation failures. It includes a command example that may trigger a denial of service or other exploits.

Description

Quake II server before R1Q2, as used in multiple products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a modified client that asks the server to send data stored at a negative array offset, which is not handled when processing Configstrings and Baselines.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP VERIFIED
by Richard Stanway · textdosmultiple
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24710

The provided text describes multiple vulnerabilities in Quake II, including boundary condition errors and access validation failures. It includes a command example that may trigger a denial of service or other exploits.

Classification
Writeup 80%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Theoretical
Target: Quake II
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Network access to a Quake II server
mistral-large-3 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/11181
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17890
Exploit vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011979
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11551
Exploit, Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/13013
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://secur1ty.net/advisories/001
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-10/0299.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0372
EPSS Percentile 88.5%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
id_software/quake_ii_server 3.20
id_software/quake_ii_server 3.21
Published Dec 31, 2004
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026