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CVE-2020-14983

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-14983 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Chocolate Doom 3.0.0 and Crispy Doom 5.8.0, affecting various distributions including OpenSUSE. This flaw allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to overwrite the server's stack by manipulating the num_players value due to insufficient input validation. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability poses a high risk for confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:chocolate-doom:chocolate_doom:3.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:chocolate-doom:crispy_doom:5.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sle-15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:backports:sle-15:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0225 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00002.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00007.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00012.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/issues/1293
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory