An issue in Portable Puzzle Collection before 20230116.5782e29 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via creating an excessive amount of save states.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0011.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
Simon Tatham Portable Puzzle Collection unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected < 20230116.5782e29

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References
Link Providers
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1028986 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/puzzles.git;a=commit;h=b3d4a4197954c21ac78b68c58dff8f84fe743ea2 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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Title Denial of Service via Excessive Save States in Portable Puzzle Collection

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:15:00 +0000

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Title Denial of Service via Excessive Save States in Portable Puzzle Collection

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:45:00 +0000

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Title Denial of Service via Excessive Save States in Portable Puzzle Collection

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Description An issue in Portable Puzzle Collection before 20230116.5782e29 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via creating an excessive amount of save states.
Weaknesses CWE-190
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 2.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-14T15:11:06.787Z

Reserved: 2023-01-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-24288

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-14T15:11:01.049Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-14T05:16:56.560

Modified: 2026-09-14T16:17:04.097

Link: CVE-2023-24288

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Updated: 2026-09-15T17:15:14Z

Weaknesses