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CVE-2004-1958· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Directory traversal vulnerability in manifest.ini in Unreal engine allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via ..

Directory traversal vulnerability in manifest.ini in Unreal engine allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in a UMOD (Unreal MOD) file.

MediumCVSS 5.0 · v2.0—Proof of concept No fix recorded
Published
Dec 31, 2004
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
2.4% · 84th 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 · 2.4%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
epic gamesunreal engine
epic gamesunreal tournament
epic gamesunreal tournament 2003

Affected versions

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

  • epic games unreal engine433
  • epic games unreal engine436
  • epic games unreal tournament451b
  • epic games unreal tournament 20032199_macos
  • epic games unreal tournament 20032199_win32
  • epic games unreal tournament 20032225_macos
  • epic games unreal tournament 20032225_win32

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-2007-4442Stack-based buffer overflow in the logging function in the Unreal engine, possibly 2003 and 2004, as used in the internal web server, allows
    21Monitor
  • 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-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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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

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 entryremote2004-04-22

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

  1. First PoC-253 d
  2. Published
  3. TodaySep 30, 2026+7943 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

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
P · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
P
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

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