CVE-2007-5250

Exp

The Windows dedicated server for the Unreal engine, as used by America's Army and America's Army Special Forces 2.8.2 and earlier, when Punkbuster (PB) is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server hang) via packets containing 0x07 characters or other unspecified invalid characters. NOTE: this issue may overlap CVE-2007-4443. NOTE: this issue might be in Punkbuster itself, but there are insufficient details to be certain.

Published: 2007-10-06 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2007-5250 is rated Exploit Available (57.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.50%). 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-2007-5250

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-5250

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 1.09% 1.50% +0.41%
2 2026-05-25 1.05% 1.09% +0.04%
3 2025-12-21 — 1.05% —

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-5250

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-5250

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-5250

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
americasarmy america\'s_army <= 2.8.2 cpe:2.3:a:americasarmy:america\'s_army:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
americasarmy america\'s_army_special_forces <= 2.8.2 cpe:2.3:a:americasarmy:america\'s_army_special_forces:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-5250

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