CVE-2005-1921
HIGHEPSS 100th pctlDescription
Eval 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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112008638320145&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112015336720867&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2
- http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC/download/1.3.1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15810
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15852
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15855
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15861
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15872
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15883
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15884
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15895
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15903
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15904
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15916
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15917
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15922
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15944
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15947
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15957
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16001
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16339
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16693
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17440
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17674
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18003
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-01.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-06.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-07.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015336
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87163
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=338803
- http://www.ampache.org/announce/3_3_1_2.php
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-745
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-746
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-747
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-789
- http://www.drupal.org/security/drupal-sa-2005-003/advisory.txt
- http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00087-07012005
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory-022005.php
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:109
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_41_php_pear.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_49_php.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-564.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419064/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14088
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2827
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11294
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A350
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