High
Security advisory
In Teeworlds before 0.6.5, connection packets could be forged. There was no challenge-response involved in the connection build up. A remote attacker could send connection packets from a spoofed IP address and occupy all server slots, or even use them for a reflection attack using map download packets.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-18541
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Teeworlds before 0.6.5, connection packets could be forged. There was no challenge-response involved in the connection build up. A remote attacker could send connection packets from a spoofed IP address and occupy all server slots, or even use them for a reflection attack using map download packets.
osv:CVE-2018-18541
Complete source record
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"references": [
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