CVE-2011-1412
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 4.2%EU EUVD
sys/sys_unix.c in the ioQuake3 engine on Unix and Linux, as used in World of Padman 1.5.x before 1.5.1.1 and OpenArena 0.8.x-15 and 0.8.x-16, allows remote game servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a long fs_game variable.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 4.2% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1418)
- Published
- August 4, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1418 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ioquake3 / ioquake3 engine
- linux / linux kernel
- openarena / openarena
- openarena / openarena
- worldofpadman / world of padman
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-07/0338.html(Exploit)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063460.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45417(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45468(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8324
- http://svn.icculus.org/quake3?view=rev&revision=2097(Patch)
- http://thilo.tjps.eu/download/patches/ioq3-svn-r2097.diff(Patch)
- http://worldofpadman.com/website/news/en/article/266/wop-1-5-1-1-hotfix-released-for-linux.html(Patch)
- http://www.osvdb.org/74137
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519051/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48915
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725951(Exploit, Patch)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68869
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-23
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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