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CVE-2005-2540
CRLF injection vulnerability in FlatNuke 2.5.5 and possibly earlier versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands via…
Medium5.0EPSS 6.1%
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- mitre
Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in FlatNuke 2.5.5 and possibly earlier versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands via an ASCII char 13 (carriage return) in the signature field, which is injected into a PHP script without a preceding comment character, which can then be executed by a direct request.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.1% · top 6.6% 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: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (6)
- 20050804 FlatNuke 2.5.5 (possibly prior versions) remote commands (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.rgod.altervista.org/flatnuke.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 16330 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- flatNuke-firma-execute-commands(21709) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 18554 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 14485 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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