{"id":12255,"date":"2022-12-28T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T11:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/nintendo-has-been-patching-a-severe-vulnerability-found-in-some-online-switch-3ds-and-wii-u-games\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T11:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T11:52:38","slug":"nintendo-has-been-patching-a-severe-vulnerability-found-in-some-online-switch-3ds-and-wii-u-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/nintendo-has-been-patching-a-severe-vulnerability-found-in-some-online-switch-3ds-and-wii-u-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Has Been Patching A &#8220;Severe&#8221; Vulnerability Found In Some Online Switch, 3DS, And Wii U Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Most titles have now been fixed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A severe vulnerability affecting several Nintendo consoles was found recently, with the potential to allow unauthorised access to Switch, 3DS, and Wii U via a host of online games. It&#8217;s reported that for some time Nintendo has been working to patch games to eliminate the exploit known as &#8216;ENLBufferPwn&#8217;, with several updates already live to address the situation (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/enlbufferpwn-exploit-switch-3ds-wii-u-games\/\">Nintendo Everything<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, which has been categorised as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.first.org\/cvss\/calculator\/3.1#CVSS:3.1\/AV:N\/AC:L\/PR:N\/UI:N\/S:U\/C:H\/I:H\/A:H\">&#8216;Critical&#8217; on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)<\/a> and detailed in full on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PabloMK7\/ENLBufferPwn\">GitHub<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pablomf6\/status\/1606637941329215488\">PabloMK7<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Rambo6Glaz\">Rambo6Glaz<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fishguy6564\">Fishguy6564<\/a>, reportedly exposes a victim&#8217;s device to complete remote control by simply playing an online game with a potential attacker. This means that attackers may gain access to sensitive information or take audio and video recordings by remotely executing code.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/nintendo-has-been-patching-a-severe-vulnerability-found-in-some-online-switch-3ds-and-wii-u-games\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Nintendo Has Been Patching A &#8220;Severe&#8221; Vulnerability Found In Some Online Switch, 3DS, And Wii U Games<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most titles have now been fixed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A severe vulnerability affecting several Nintendo consoles was found recently, with the potential to allow unauthorised access to Switch, 3DS, and Wii U via a host of online games. It&#8217;s reported that for some time Nintendo has been working to patch games to eliminate the exploit known as &#8216;ENLBufferPwn&#8217;, with several updates already live to address the situation (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/enlbufferpwn-exploit-switch-3ds-wii-u-games\/\">Nintendo Everything<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, which has been categorised as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.first.org\/cvss\/calculator\/3.1#CVSS:3.1\/AV:N\/AC:L\/PR:N\/UI:N\/S:U\/C:H\/I:H\/A:H\">&#8216;Critical&#8217; on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)<\/a> and detailed in full on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PabloMK7\/ENLBufferPwn\">GitHub<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pablomf6\/status\/1606637941329215488\">PabloMK7<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Rambo6Glaz\">Rambo6Glaz<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fishguy6564\">Fishguy6564<\/a>, reportedly exposes a victim&#8217;s device to complete remote control by simply playing an online game with a potential attacker. This means that attackers may gain access to sensitive information or take audio and video recordings by remotely executing code.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/nintendo-has-been-patching-a-severe-vulnerability-found-in-some-online-switch-3ds-and-wii-u-games\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}