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CVE-2009-3637

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-3637 is a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Red Planet Arena Alien Arena 7.30. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending crafted packets to UDP port 27901. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity with complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:icculus:alien_arena:7.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0764 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-3637Important

alienarena: Buffer overflow by processing specially-crafted UDP reply from game server (ACE)

Jun 23, 2009

References

icculus.org / alienarena/changelogs/7.31.txt
secunia.com / advisories/37118
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37256
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37259
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00179.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00218.html
ngssoftware.com / advisories/very-high-risk-vulnerability-in-alien-arena-730
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/507369/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/36782
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2997