CVE-2008-6712

Crysis < 1.21 - Denial of Service via Long HTTP Request

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-6712. PoCs published by Luigi Auriemma.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit triggers a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Crysis 1.21 by sending an HTTP request with an excessively long string, causing the application to crash due to improper handling of exceptional conditions.

Description

The HTTP/XML-RPC service in Crysis 1.21 (game version 1.1.1.6156) and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long HTTP request, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Luigi Auriemma · textdosmultiple
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31931

This exploit triggers a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Crysis 1.21 by sending an HTTP request with an excessively long string, causing the application to crash due to improper handling of exceptional conditions.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Crysis 1.21
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Network access to the target application
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493385/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/46261
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43126
Exploit vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29759
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/30675
Exploit x_refsource_misc
http://aluigi.org/poc/dontcrysis.txt

Scores

EPSS 0.0740
EPSS Percentile 93.6%

Details

Status published
Products (3)
ea/crysis 1.1
ea/crysis 1.2
ea/crysis < 1.21
Published Apr 10, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026