CVE-2006-2082

Directory traversal vulnerability in Quake 3 engine, as used in products including Quake3 Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, when the sv_allowdownload cvar is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files from the server via ".." sequences in a .pk3 file request.

Published: 2006-05-10 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-2082 is rated Moderate Risk (56.7/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.71%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-2082

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.95% 1.71% +0.76%
2 2025-09-20 0.69% 0.95% +0.26%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.69% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-2082

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-2082

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-2082

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2006-2082 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ioquake3), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-2082

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2006-2082

Solution: id Software has released patches to address this and other issues.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-2082

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
id_software quake_3_engine — cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-2082

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