VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0048

medium
Published 2012-08-25 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

OpenTTD 0.3.5 through 1.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (game pause) by connecting to the server and not finishing the (1) authorization phase or (2) map download, aka a "slow read" attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
openttdopenttd0.3.5
openttdopenttd0.3.6
openttdopenttd0.3.7
openttdopenttd0.4.0
openttdopenttd0.4.0.1
openttdopenttd0.4.5
openttdopenttd0.4.6
openttdopenttd0.4.7
openttdopenttd0.4.8
openttdopenttd0.5.0
openttdopenttd0.5.1
openttdopenttd0.5.2
openttdopenttd0.5.3
openttdopenttd0.6.0
openttdopenttd0.6.1
openttdopenttd0.6.2
openttdopenttd0.6.2-rc1
openttdopenttd0.6.2-rc2
openttdopenttd0.6.3
openttdopenttd0.7.0
openttdopenttd0.7.1
openttdopenttd0.7.2
openttdopenttd0.7.3
openttdopenttd0.7.4
openttdopenttd0.7.5
openttdopenttd1.0.0
openttdopenttd1.0.1
openttdopenttd1.0.2
openttdopenttd1.0.3
openttdopenttd1.0.4
openttdopenttd1.0.5
openttdopenttd1.1.3
openttdopenttd1.1.4

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.