CVE-2001-1289: Id Software Quake 3 Arena

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Quake 3 arena 1.29f and 1.29g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed connection packet that begins with several char-255 characters.

Affected products

• Id Software Quake 3 Arena: version 1.29f only; version 1.29g only

Published 2001-07-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.