Unscored severity · published Aug 15, 2005
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) phpAdsNew, (3) phpPgAds, and (4)…
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CVSS
5.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.1% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
3.1 · source: NVD
PH
Phpxmlrpc · Gggeek
through 1.1.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2498
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2498
Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112412415822890&w=2
Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112431497300344&w=2
Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16431
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16432
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16441
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