CVE-2005-2498

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.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 4.69% Top 15%
Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory marc.info Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory fedoralegacy.org Vendor Advisory novell.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory hardened-php.net
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
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References

Link Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-789 mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17066 third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16441 third party advisory broken link
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112431497300344&w=2 third party advisory mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/16491 third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16619 third party advisory broken link
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112412415822890&w=2 third party advisory mailing list
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16460 third party advisory broken link
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-748.html vendor advisory broken link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14560 vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16558 third party advisory broken link
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-840 mailing list vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16431 third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16693 third party advisory broken link
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-28-FLSA_2005_166943__Updated_php_packages_fix_security_issues.html vendor advisory broken link
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_49_php.html vendor advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/17440 third party advisory broken link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408125 mailing list vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16976 third party advisory broken link
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-19.xml third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16469 third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16563 third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/17053 third party advisory broken link
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-798 mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16468 third party advisory broken link
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-842 mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16465 third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16635 third party advisory broken link
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_152005.67.html not applicable patch vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16432 third party advisory broken link
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9569 vdb entry signature broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16550 third party advisory broken link

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2005-2498?
CVE-2005-2498 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2005-2498?
To fix CVE-2005-2498, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2005-2498 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2005-2498 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~5% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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