CVE-2009-2548: Bistudio Arma

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in Armed Assault (aka ArmA) 1.14 and earlier, and 1.16 beta, and Armed Assault II 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the (1) nickname and (2) datafile fields in a join request, which is not properly handled when logging an error message.

Affected products

• Bistudio Arma: up to and including 1.16_beta; version 1.14 only
• Bistudio Arma 2: up to and including 1.02

Published 2009-07-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.