CVE-2023-33245 is a critical arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability affecting Minecraft Java versions up to 1.19 and 1.20 pre-releases before 7. Attackers can exploit this by crafting malicious world data containing a symlink, potentially leading to remote code execution. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), the vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but can be exploited over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:minecraft:minecraft:*:*:*:*:java:*:*:* | ||
1.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:minecraft:minecraft:1.20:pre-release1:*:*:java:*:*:* | ||
1.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:minecraft:minecraft:1.20:pre-release2:*:*:java:*:*:* | ||
1.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:minecraft:minecraft:1.20:pre-release3:*:*:java:*:*:* | ||
1.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:minecraft:minecraft:1.20:pre-release4:*:*:java:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub 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 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.