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CVE-2020-7949

36
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-7949 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Valve Dota 2 versions prior to 7.23f, specifically within the schemasystem.dll. It allows remote attackers to achieve code execution or denial of service by creating a malicious gaming server and inviting a victim, exploiting a crafted map during a GetValue call. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, a Proof-of-Concept for denial of service is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there's no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 7.23fCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:valvesoftware:dota_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-48031 · Feb 10, 2020
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0416 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / bi7s/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2020-7949
Third Party Advisory