CVE-2006-3324

Exp

The Automatic Downloading option in the id3 Quake 3 Engine and the Icculus Quake 3 Engine (ioquake3) before revision 804 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files in the quake3 directory (fs_homepath cvar) via a long string of filenames, as contained in the neededpaks buffer.

Published: 2006-06-30 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-3324 is rated High Exploit Risk (64.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.23%). 3 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-2006-3324

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
1976 exploit_db edb 2006-07-02 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-3324

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 2025-11-10 2.53% 2.23% -0.31%
2 2025-03-30 3.31% 2.53% -0.78%
3 2025-03-29 — 3.31% —

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-3324

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N 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:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-3324

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-3324

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2006-3324 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-2006-3324

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-3324

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
id_software quake_3_engine — cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
id_software quake_3_engine 1.32b cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:1.32b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
id_software quake_3_engine 1.32c cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:1.32c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
id_software quake_3_engine icculus_803 cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:icculus_803:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
id_software quake_3_engine icculus_804 cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake_3_engine:icculus_804:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-3324

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