sys/sys_unix.c in the ioQuake3 engine on Unix and Linux, as used in World of Padman 1.5.x before 1.5.1.1 and OpenArena 0.8.x-15 and 0.8.x-16, allows remote game servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a long fs_game variable.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2011-1412 is rated High Exploit Risk (76.3/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.47%, 90th percentile). Core evidence: 2 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.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2026-02-03 | 5.63% | 5.47% | -0.16% |
| 2 | 2025-11-05 | 2.38% | 5.63% | +3.26% |
| 3 | 2025-06-25 | — | 2.38% | — |
Full EPSS history (12 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 2.0 | HIGH |
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10.0 | 6.4 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2011-1412 unimportant priority: Debian including 2 source packages (ioquake3, openarena), 10 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 10. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1412 |
gentoo
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normal | CVE-2011-1412: 1 GLSA(s) (201706-23), 1 atom(s) (games-fps/urbanterror); latest impact normal. | https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2011-1412 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2011-1412 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (ioquake3, openarena), 68 status rows across 34 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hardy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, maverick, natty, noble, oneiric, oracular, plucky, precise, quantal, questing, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 34, not-affected 21 (6 distinct statuses). | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-1412 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| ioquake3 | ioquake3_engine | — | cpe:2.3:a:ioquake3:ioquake3_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| openarena | openarena | 0.8.x-15 | cpe:2.3:a:openarena:openarena:0.8.x-15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| openarena | openarena | 0.8.x-16 | cpe:2.3:a:openarena:openarena:0.8.x-16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| worldofpadman | world_of_padman | 1.5 | cpe:2.3:a:worldofpadman:world_of_padman:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |