Teeworlds
CVE-2021-43518
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Buffer copy size validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Teeworlds up to and including 0.7.5 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Always validate buffer sizes before copy operations. Use bounded functions (strncpy, snprintf). Enable compiler protections.
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This vulnerability is classified as Buffer Copy without Size Check (CWE-120), which allows attackers to overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory. Teeworlds up to and including 0.7.5 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. A map parser does not validate m_Channels value coming from a map file, leading to a buffer overflow. A malicious server may offer a specially crafted map that will overwrite client's stack causing denial of service or code execution. Affected products include: Teeworlds, Fedoraproject Fedora.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Teeworlds up to and including 0.7.5 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. A map parser does not validate m_Channels value coming from a map file, leading to a buffer overflow. A malicious server may offer a specially crafted map that will overwrite client's stack causing denial of service or code execution.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
In Teeworlds 0.7.2, there is an integer overflow in CDataFileReader::Open() in engine/shared/datafile.cpp that can lead
The CClient::ProcessServerPacket method in engine/client/client.cpp in Teeworlds before 0.6.4 allows remote servers to w
In Teeworlds 0.7.2, there is an integer overflow in CMap::Load() in engine/shared/map.cpp that can lead to a buffer over
In Teeworlds 0.7.2, there is a failed bounds check in CDataFileReader::GetData() and CDataFileReader::ReplaceData() and
A heap use-after-free in the component CDataFileReader::GetItem of teeworlds v0.7.5 allows attackers to cause a Denial o
A memory leak in the component CConsole::Chain of Teeworlds v0.7.5 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) v
CServer::SendMsg in engine/server/server.cpp in Teeworlds 0.7.x before 0.7.5 allows remote attackers to shut down the se
In Teeworlds before 0.6.5, connection packets could be forged. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is rem
engine/server/server.cpp in Teeworlds 0.6.x before 0.6.3 allows remote attackers to read memory and cause a denial of se
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