CVE-1999-1569 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Quake 1 and NetQuake servers allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion or forced disconnection) via a flood of spoofed UDP connection packets, which exceeds the server's player limit.

Published: 2002-08-31

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 2.0% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:id_software:quake:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-1999-1550	Quake 1 and NetQuake servers allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion or forced disconnection) via a flood of spoofed UDP connection packets, which exceeds the server's player limit.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0199.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221101925989&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91012172524181&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/197268
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3051
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6871

History

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Subscriptions

Id Software Quake

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-08-31T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:18:07.603Z

Reserved: 2002-01-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-1569

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-07-17T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-1999-1569

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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