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CVE-2005-2498
Eval injection vulnerability in PHPXMLRPC 1.1.1 and earlier (PEAR XML-RPC for PHP), as used in multiple products including (1) Drupal, (2)…
High7.5EPSS 5.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Eval injection vulnerability in PHPXMLRPC 1.1.1 and earlier (PEAR XML-RPC for PHP), as used in multiple products including (1) Drupal, (2) phpAdsNew, (3) phpPgAds, and (4) phpgroupware, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via certain nested XML tags in a PHP document that should not be nested, which are injected into an eval function call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1921.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.1% · top 7.6% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (33)
- DSA-789 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 17066 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16441 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20050817 [PHPADSNEW-SA-2005-001] phpAdsNew and phpPgAds 2.0.6 fix multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 16491 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16619 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20050815 [DRUPAL-SA-2005-004] Drupal 4.6.3 / 4.5.5 fixes critical XML-RPC issue (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2005:051 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 16460 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:748 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 14560 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 16558 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-840 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 16431 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16693 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FLSA:166943 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2005:049 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 17440 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20050815 Advisory 15/2005: PHPXMLRPC Remote PHP Code Injection Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 16976 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-200509-19 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 16469 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16563 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 17053 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-798 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 16468 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-842 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 16465 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16635 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_152005.67.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 16432 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9569 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 16550 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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