CVE-2018-20817

CRITICAL

Activision Call OF Duty - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

SV_SteamAuthClient in various Activision Infinity Ward Call of Duty games before 2015-08-11 is missing a size check when reading authBlob data into a buffer, which allows one to execute code on the remote target machine when sending a steam authentication request. This affects Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops 1, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0306
EPSS Percentile 86.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (6)
activision/call_of_duty\ _advanced_warfare
activision/call_of_duty\ _black_ops_1
activision/call_of_duty\ _blacks_ops_2
activision/call_of_duty\ _ghosts
activision/call_of_duty\ _modern_warfare_2
activision/call_of_duty\ _modern_warfare_3
Published Apr 19, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026