CVE-2018-20817

Summary

CVECVE-2018-20817
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-04-19 23:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-04-22 17:10:00 UTC
DescriptionSV_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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Activision Call Of Duty _advanced_warfare - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _blacks_ops_2 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _black_ops_1 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _ghosts - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _modern_warfare_2 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _modern_warfare_3 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _advanced_warfare - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _blacks_ops_2 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _black_ops_1 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _ghosts - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _modern_warfare_2 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _modern_warfare_3 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _advanced_warfare - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _blacks_ops_2 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _black_ops_1 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _ghosts - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _modern_warfare_2 - All All
Application Activision Call Of Duty _modern_warfare_3 - All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GitHub - RektInator/cod-steamauth-rce MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cod-exploits/steam-auth at master · momo5502/cod-exploits · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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