CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0770

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-08-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-08-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

Quake 2 (Q2) server 3.20 and 3.21 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive server cvar variables, obtain directory listings, and execute Q2 server admin commands via a client that does not expand "$" macros, which causes the server to expand the macros and leak the information, as demonstrated using "say $rcon_password."

Affected configurations

• id software quake 2i server 3.20 • id software quake 2i server 3.21

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (3)

  • CWE-152 Improper Neutralization of Macro Symbols weakness
  • CWE-153 Improper Neutralization of Substitution Characters weakness
  • CWE-154 Improper Neutralization of Variable Name Delimiters weakness

References