CVE-2004-2592: Id Software Quake Ii Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Quake II server before R1Q2, as used in multiple products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a modified client that asks the server to send data stored at a negative array offset, which is not handled when processing Configstrings and Baselines.

Affected products

• Id Software Quake Ii Server: version 3.20 only; version 3.21 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.