CVE-1999-1502

High CVSS 7.5

Published 1998-04-08 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1502, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1502

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P