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CVE-2020-15007

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—
Severity9.8Critical · CVSS 3.1
Exploitation probability2.49 %higher than 85% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

A buffer overflow in the M_LoadDefaults function in m_misc.c in id Tech 1 (aka Doom engine) allows arbitrary code execution via an unsafe usage of fscanf, because it does not limit the number of characters to be read in a format argument.

CVSS

Base score
9.8
Version
3.1
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
2.49 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
85
Score date
10/23/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Doom Vanille Project — Doom VanilleIdsoftware — Tech 1

CWEs

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