CVE-2009-2548 describes a critical format string vulnerability affecting Bohemia Interactive's Armed Assault (ArmA) 1.14 and earlier, 1.16 beta, and Armed Assault II 1.02 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code by injecting format string specifiers into nickname and datafile fields during a join request, which are improperly handled when logging error messages. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.16_betaCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bistudio:arma:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bistudio:arma:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.02CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bistudio:arma_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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