CVE-2006-2082: Id Software Quake 3 Engine

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Quake 3 engine, as used in products including Quake3 Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, when the sv_allowdownload cvar is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files from the server via ".." sequences in a .pk3 file request.

Affected products

• Id Software Quake 3 Engine: any version

Published 2006-05-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.