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CVE-2017-20205

9.2 criticalEPSS 0.7%

Critical (9.2). EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Valve's Source SDK (source-sdk-2013)'s ragdoll model parsing logic contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability.The tokenizer function `nexttoken` copies characters from an input string into a fixed-size stack buffer without performing bounds checks. When `ParseKeyValue` processes a collisionpair rule longer than the destination buffer (256 bytes), an overflow of the stack buffer `szToken` can occur and overwrite the function return address. A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerable code by supplying a specially crafted ragdoll model which causes the oversized collisionpair rule to be parsed, resulting in remote code execution on affected clients or servers. Valve has addressed this issue in many of their Source games, but independently-developed games must manually apply patch.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

9.2 critical
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 52% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-121
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

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