CVE-2005-1921

Summary

CVECVE-2005-1921
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-07-05 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionEval injection vulnerability in PEAR XML_RPC 1.3.0 and earlier (aka XML-RPC or xmlrpc) and PHPXMLRPC (aka XML-RPC For PHP or php-xmlrpc) 1.1 and earlier, as used in products such as (1) WordPress, (2) Serendipity, (3) Drupal, (4) egroupware, (5) MailWatch, (6) TikiWiki, (7) phpWebSite, (8) Ampache, and others, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via an XML file, which is not properly sanitized before being used in an eval statement.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-94 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Drupal Drupal All All All All
Application Gggeek Phpxmlrpc All All All All
Application Php Xml Rpc All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - PostNuke XML-RPC Library PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-746-1 phpgroupware af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - MAXdev MD-Pro Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - phpPgAds XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Security advisories | Drupal.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.drupal.org Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Jaws "path" File Inclusion and XML-RPC PHP Code Execution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- phpWebSite: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-745-1 drupal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - XOOPS PHPMailer and XML-RPC Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
'[DRUPAL-SA-2005-003] Drupal 4.6.2 / 4.5.4 fixes critical XML-RPC issue' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Third Party Advisory
Contact Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gulftech.org Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - XML-RPC for PHP PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Hardened-PHP Project - PHP Security - Advisory 02/2005 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.hardened-php.net Not Applicable
FreeMED XML_RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
SourceForge.net: Project Filelist af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net Product
Secunia - Advisories - phpGroupWare XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - phpAdsNew XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - Drupal PHP Code Execution Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Broken Link
Page not found - SourceForge.net af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net Broken Link
[A] m p a c h e : For the love of music since May 5th 2001 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ampache.org Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - b2evolution XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
'Advisory 02/2005: Remote code execution in Serendipity' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Nucleus XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution through XML-RPC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
XML-RPC for PHP Remote Code Injection Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Secunia - Advisories - Ampache XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - HP Tru64 UNIX Secure Web Server XML_RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - MailWatch for MailScanner XML-RPC PHP Code Execution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - phpMyFAQ XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - PhpWiki XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
'SUSE Security Announcement: php4, php5 remote code execution' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Third Party Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- PEAR XML-RPC, phpxmlrpc: PHP script injection vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-747-1 egroupware af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - eGroupWare XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - phpWebSite PEAR XML_RPC PHP Code Execution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
SecurityTracker.com Archives - HP Secure Web Server for Tru64 UNIX XMLRPC Bug Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary PHP Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com Broken Link
PEAR :: Package :: XML_RPC :: 1.3.1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 pear.php.net Patch, Product
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - BLOG:CMS XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - PEAR XML_RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Broken Link
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com Broken Link
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Patch, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - TikiWiki XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-789-1 php4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
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