Vulnerability record · CVE-2007-4442 · published 21 August 2007

CVE-2007-4442: Epic games unreal engine vulnerability

Epic Games · Unreal Engine

Stack-based buffer overflow in the logging function in the Unreal engine, possibly 2003 and 2004, as used in the internal web server, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a request for a long .gif filename in the images/ directory, related to conversion from Unicode to ASCII.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 3.8% · top 10.3%

5.0CVSS 2.0 base score

3.8%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

1Affected product versions listed by NVD

14References

16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Unreal Engine Epic Games

References

Link	Tags
http://aluigi.org/adv/unrwebdos-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/unrwebdos.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/26506	Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3039
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477026/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25374
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36102
http://aluigi.org/adv/unrwebdos-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/unrwebdos.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/26506	Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3039
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477026/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25374
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36102

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2007-4442), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.