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CVE-2006-0734

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0734 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Valve Software Half-Life CSTRIKE Dedicated Server 1.6 and earlier. An authenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted connection string containing a backslash to UDP port 27015, triggering an infinite loop and daemon hang. With a CVSS score of 4.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring authentication but being easily exploitable to cause a service disruption. While not on the KEV catalog and with no Metasploit or Nuclei modules, an exploit is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6_linuxCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:valve_software:half-life_cstrike_dedicated_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.6_windowsCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:valve_software:half-life_cstrike_dedicated_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1483 · Feb 11, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0251 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 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 0.1 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/csdos.txt
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/33505
securityfocus.com / bid/16619
Exploit