CVE-2018-25109 (GCVE-0-2018-25109)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-23 22:31 – Updated: 2025-03-24 13:35
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
6.4 (Medium)
6.4 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-24 13:34 UTC
CWE
- CWE-119 - Memory Corruption
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://vuldb.com/?id.300631 | vdb-entry |
| https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.300631 | signaturepermissions-required |
| https://jamchamb.net/2018/07/11/animal-crossing-n… | related |
| https://hunter-r.com/posts/ac-trigrams/ | related |
| https://github.com/FIX94/ac-exploit-gc | exploit |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo | Animal Crossing |
Affected:
1.00
Affected: 1.01 |
guessed | |
| Nintendo | Doubutsu no Mori+ |
Affected:
1.00
Affected: 1.01 |
guessed | |
| Nintendo | Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
Affected:
1.00
Affected: 1.01 |
guessed |
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