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CVE-2005-0983

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0983 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Quake 3 engine, impacting games from Activision, id Software, LucasArts, and Raven Software. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending an excessively long message, causing client disconnection due to improper truncation and subsequent misinterpretation of network data. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it's a low-complexity network attack leading to partial availability loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:activision:call_of_duty:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:activision:call_of_duty:1.5b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.41CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:activision:call_of_duty_united_offensive:1.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.51bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:activision:call_of_duty_united_offensive:1.51b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:activision:return_to_castle_wolfenstein:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0255 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

aluigi.altervista.org / adv/q3msgboom-adv.txt
Exploit
bani.anime.net / banimod/forums/viewtopic.php
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/14811
securityfocus.com / bid/12976