CVE-2006-2236

Exp

Buffer overflow in the Quake 3 Engine, as used by (1) ET 2.60, (2) Return to Castle Wolfenstein 1.41, and (3) Quake III Arena 1.32b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long remapShader command.

Published: 2006-05-08 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-2236 is rated High Exploit Risk (77.1/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.06%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-2236

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
1750 exploit_db edb 2006-05-05 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-2236

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 2025-09-18 3.25% 4.06% +0.81%
2 2025-08-02 1.74% 3.25% +1.51%
3 2025-03-30 — 1.74% —

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-2236

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.6 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 4.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-2236

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-2236

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2006-2236 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-2006-2236
gentoo normal CVE-2006-2236: 2 GLSA(s) (200605-12, 200901-06), 5 atom(s) (games-fps/enemy-territory, games-fps/quake3-bin, games-fps/rtcw, games-fps/tremulous, games-fps/tremulous-bin); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2006-2236

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-2236

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
id_software quake_3_arena 1.32b cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_arena:1.32b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
id_software quake_3_engine 1.32b cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:1.32b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
id_software return_to_castle_wolfenstein 1.41 cpe:2.3:a:id_software:return_to_castle_wolfenstein:1.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
id_software wolfenstein_enemy_territory 2.60 cpe:2.3:a:id_software:wolfenstein_enemy_territory:2.60:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-2236

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