CVE-2017-14748 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Race condition in Blizzard Overwatch 1.15.0.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (season bans and SR losses for other users) by leaving a competitive match at a specific time during the initial loading of that match.

Published: 2017-09-26

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very 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:blizzard:overwatch:1.15.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-6243	Race condition in Blizzard Overwatch 1.15.0.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (season bans and SR losses for other users) by leaving a competitive match at a specific time during the initial loading of that match.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00416.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101087
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20759216554
https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/72euqx/theres_a_bug_out_there_that_can_instantly/

History

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Subscriptions

Blizzard Overwatch

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-26T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:34:39.991Z

Reserved: 2017-09-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-14748

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-26T17:29:00.227

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-14748

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-362

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