CVE-2001-0952 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in THQ Volition Red Faction Game, affecting both client and server installations. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted packets to UDP port 7755, causing the game to hang. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:volition:red_faction:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:volition:red_faction:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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