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CVE-2018-20817
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-04-19T23:29:00.303 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:53:32.277

Summary

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.

Affected products

activision — call_of_duty\

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References

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