CVSS 4.0
9.3 criticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2009-10006
Critical (9.3). EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
UFO: Alien Invasion versions up to and including 2.2.1 contain a buffer overflow vulnerability in its built-in IRC client component. When the client connects to an IRC server and receives a crafted numeric reply (specifically a 001 message), the application fails to properly validate the length of the response string. This results in a stack-based buffer overflow, which may corrupt control flow structures and allow arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability is triggered during automatic IRC connection handling and does not require user interaction beyond launching the game.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-121
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/osx/misc/ufo_ai.rb
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/misc/ufo_ai.rb
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14013
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16864
- https://www.moddb.com/news/ufo-alien-invasion-231-released