Activision Infinity Ward Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 SV_SteamAuthClient authBlob memory corruption
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A vulnerability was found in Activision Infinity Ward 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. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function SV_SteamAuthClient
. The manipulation of the argument authBlob
as part of a Authentication Request leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
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.
The weakness was shared 04/19/2019. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-20817 since 04/19/2019. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
Product
Vendor
Name
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 1
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
- Call of Duty: Ghosts
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.5VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.4
VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.0
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
08/11/2015 🔍04/19/2019 🔍
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04/20/2019 🔍
09/04/2023 🔍
Sources
Advisory: github.comStatus: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2018-20817 (🔍)
Entry
Created: 04/20/2019 07:20Updated: 09/04/2023 21:10
Changes: 04/20/2019 07:20 (38), 05/31/2020 09:31 (17), 09/04/2023 21:10 (4)
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