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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2498 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112412415822890&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112431497300344&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16431 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16432 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16441 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16460 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16465 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16468 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16469 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16491 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16550 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16558 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16563 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16619 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16635 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16693 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/16976 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/17053 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/17066 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/17440 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-789 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-798 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-840 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-842 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-28-FLSA_2005_166943__Updated_php_packages_fix_security_issues.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-19.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_152005.67.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_49_php.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-748.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408125 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14560 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9569 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-2498
NVD Published Date:
08/15/2005
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.