CVE-2008-7011

Exp

The Unreal engine, as used in Unreal Tournament 3 1.3, Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004, Dead Man's Hand, Pariah, WarPath, Postal2, and Shadow Ops, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server exit) via multiple file downloads from the server, which triggers an assertion failure when the Closing flag in UnChan.cpp is set.

Published: 2009-08-19 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-7011 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.47%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: 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-2008-7011

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
32386 exploit_db edb 2008-09-16 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-7011

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 2026-02-28 2.68% 3.47% +0.79%
2 2025-03-30 2.90% 2.68% -0.22%
3 2025-03-29 2.90%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-7011

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/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:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-7011

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-7011

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
digital_extreme pariah cpe:2.3:a:digital_extreme:pariah:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
epic_games unreal_tournament 3 cpe:2.3:a:epic_games:unreal_tournament:3:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*
epic_games unreal_tournament 2003 cpe:2.3:a:epic_games:unreal_tournament:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
epic_games unreal_tournament 2004 cpe:2.3:a:epic_games:unreal_tournament:2004:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
groove_games warpath cpe:2.3:a:groove_games:warpath:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
human_head_studios dead_mans_hand cpe:2.3:a:human_head_studios:dead_mans_hand:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
red_mercury shadow_ops cpe:2.3:a:red_mercury:shadow_ops:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
whiptail_interactive postal 2 cpe:2.3:a:whiptail_interactive:postal:2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-7011

cvelogic Threat Intelligence