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CVE-2006-3325

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-3325 describes a vulnerability in the id3 Quake 3 Engine 1.32c and Icculus Quake 3 Engine (ioquake3) revision 810 and earlier, allowing remote malicious servers to overwrite arbitrary write-protected client variables (cvars) like cl_allowdownload and fs_homepath. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial integrity impact without requiring authentication. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion, it's noted that this cvar overwrite could be combined with another vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.32bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:1.32b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.32cCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:1.32c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
icculus_803CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:icculus_803:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
icculus_804CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:icculus_804:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1976 · Jul 2, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0467 is in the 87th 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/q3cfilevar-adv.txt
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/20401
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20851
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/1171
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/26889
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/27486
securityfocus.com / archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/18685
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/2569