CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20817
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-04-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
SV_SteamAuthClient in various Activision Infinity Ward Call of Duty games before 2015-08-11 is missing a size check when reading authBlob data into a buffer, which allows one to execute code on the remote target machine when sending a steam authentication request. This affects Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops 1, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
Affected configurations
• activision call of duty\ advanced warfare
• activision call of duty\ black ops 1
• activision call of duty\ blacks ops 2
• activision call of duty\ ghosts
• activision call of duty\ modern warfare 2
• activision call of duty\ modern warfare 3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://github.com/RektInator/cod-steamauth-rce Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/momo5502/cod-exploits/tree/master/steam-auth Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/RektInator/cod-steamauth-rce Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/momo5502/cod-exploits/tree/master/steam-auth Third Party Advisory