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CVE-2005-4699
Argument injection vulnerability in TellMe 1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to modify command line arguments for the Whois program…
Medium6.4EPSS 1.9%
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- mitre
Description
Argument injection vulnerability in TellMe 1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to modify command line arguments for the Whois program and obtain sensitive information via "--" style options in the q_Host parameter.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 21% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (6)
- tellme-index-command-option(22522) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20051005 Tellme 1.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://kimihia.org.nz/projects/tellme/files/tellme-1.2-1.3.diff (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://exploitlabs.com/files/advisories/EXPL-A-2005-015-tellme.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 17078 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19871 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
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- 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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