CVE-2010-5077 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Quake3 Arena and related engines like ioquake3, OpenArena, and Tremulous. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending spoofed getstatus or rcon requests, leading to network traffic amplification. This vulnerability has a high severity CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a critical impact on availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= r1761CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ioquake3:ioquake3_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openarena:openarena:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tremulous:tremulous:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.