EIP-2026-116576

PRE-CVE

World Of Warcraft - 'chat-cache.txt' Local Stack Overflow Denial of Service

Title source: legacy
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-116576. PoCs published by BSOD Digital.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit triggers a local stack overflow in World of Warcraft by writing an excessively large string to the chat-cache.txt file, causing a DoS via stack overflow. The PoC is functional but lacks remote code execution capabilities.

Description

World Of Warcraft - 'chat-cache.txt' Local Stack Overflow Denial of Service

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by BSOD Digital · perldoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17781

This exploit triggers a local stack overflow in World of Warcraft by writing an excessively large string to the chat-cache.txt file, causing a DoS via stack overflow. The PoC is functional but lacks remote code execution capabilities.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: World of Warcraft (Burning Crusade, Cataclysm, Demo Version)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Local access to the target system · Ability to write to the World of Warcraft chat-cache.txt file
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

Details

Status pre_cve
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026