CVE-1999-1502: Id Software Quake

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflows in Quake 1.9 client allows remote malicious servers to execute arbitrary commands via long (1) precache paths, (2) server name, (3) server address, or (4) argument to the map console command.

Affected products

Published 1998-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.