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.
References (10)
Core 10
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/11a83410153756ae350a82ed41b08d128ff7f998
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3812
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/b248763e4878ef12d5835ece6600be8334f67da1
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/b173ac05993f634a42be3d3535e1b158de0c3372
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK/commit/8956a35e7b91c4a0dd1fa6db1d28c7f0efbab2d7
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/f61fe5f6a0419ef4a88d46a128052f2e8352e85d
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://ioquake3.org/2017/03/13/important-security-update-please-update-ioquake3-immediately/
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/376267d534476a875d8b9228149c4ee18b74a4fd
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/b6ff2bcb1e4e6976d61e316175c6d7c99860fe20
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857699
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0129
EPSS Percentile
66.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (1)
ioquake3/ioquake3
< 2017-02-27
Published
Mar 14, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026