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CVE-2007-4442· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Stack-based buffer overflow in the logging function in the Unreal engine, possibly 2003 and 2004, as used in the internal web server, allows

Stack-based buffer overflow in the logging function in the Unreal engine, possibly 2003 and 2004, as used in the internal web server, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a request for a long .gif filename in the images/ directory, related to conversion from Unicode to ASCII.

MediumCVSS 5.0 · v2.0—Proof of concept No fix recorded
Published
Aug 20, 2007
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
3.8% · 90th percentile
CWE
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Action score

21

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
20 / 40 · 5.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 3.8%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
epic gamesunreal engine

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • epic games unreal engine2003
  • epic games unreal engine2004

Same product

epic games: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2003-1432Epic Games Unreal Engine 226f through 436 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) and possibly execu
    42Plan
  • CVE-2003-1431Buffer overflow in Epic Games Unreal Engine 226f through 436 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long host st
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2004-1805Format string vulnerability in games using the Epic Games Unreal Engine 436 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and
    22Monitor
  • CVE-2007-4443The UCC dedicated server for the Unreal engine, possibly 2003 and 2004, on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (con
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2004-1958Directory traversal vulnerability in manifest.ini in Unreal engine allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via ..
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2003-1433Epic Games Unreal Engine 226f through 436 does not validate the challenge key, which allows remote attackers to exhaust the player limit by
    17Monitor

Remediation

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Exploit status

Proof of concept available

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Evidence

  • Exploit-DB entry ×1

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Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Exploit-DB entrydos2007-08-20

Research context

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Timeline

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  1. First PoC-1 d
  2. Published
  3. TodaySep 30, 2026+6981 d
EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
P · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
P

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

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