CVE-2018-25109 (GCVE-0-2018-25109)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-23 22:31 – Updated: 2025-03-24 13:35
VLAI?
Title
Nintendo Animal Crossing Letter Trigram ac-exploit-gc memory corruption
Summary
A vulnerability has been found in Nintendo Animal Crossing, Doubutsu no Mori+ and Doubutsu no Mori e+ 1.00/1.01 on GameCube and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Letter Trigram Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. It is possible to launch the attack on the physical device. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Nintendo Animal Crossing Affected: 1.00
Affected: 1.01
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