CVE-2005-2498

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-2498
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-08-15 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionEval 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.

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
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 3.1 All All All
Application Gggeek Phpxmlrpc All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PHPXMLRPC and PEAR XML_RPC Remote Code Injection Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Secunia - Advisories - Drupal XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - MAXdev MD-Pro Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - phpGroupWare Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
'[PHPADSNEW-SA-2005-001] phpAdsNew and phpPgAds 2.0.6 fix multiple' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Nucleus CMS XML-RPC Nested XML Tags PHP Code Execution 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 - Gentoo update for PEAR-XML_RPC / phpxmlrpc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - b2evolution XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-798-1 phpgroupware af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - XML-RPC for PHP Nested XML Tags PHP Code Execution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Hardened-PHP Project - PHP Security - Advisory 15/2005 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.hardened-php.net Not Applicable, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - phpAdsNew Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-842-1 egroupware af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Gentoo update for php af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for drupal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - eGroupWare XML-RPC Nested XML Tags PHP Code Execution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - Slackware update for php 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
Secunia - Advisories - phpMyFAQ XML-RPC Nested XML Tags PHP Code Execution 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
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for egroupware af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - TikiWiki XML-RPC Nested XML Tags PHP Code Execution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-840-1 drupal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Mailing List
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- PHP: Vulnerabilities in included PCRE and XML-RPC libraries af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
'[DRUPAL-SA-2005-004] Drupal 4.6.3 / 4.5.5 fixes critical XML-RPC issue' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Third Party Advisory
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - SUSE update for php4/php5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - phpPgAds Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
The Fedora Legacy Project af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.fedoralegacy.org Broken Link
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-789-1 php4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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