CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-2498

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Eval injection vulnerability in PHPXMLRPC 1.1.1 and earlier (PEAR XML-RPC for PHP), used in multiple products including Drupal, phpAdsNew, phpPgAds, and phpgroupware. Remote attackers can execute arbitrary PHP code via specially crafted nested XML tags in a PHP document that are injected into an eval function call.

Risk Assessment

Risk for the organization includes complete server compromise, data theft, content modification, or use of the server for further attacks.

Recommendation

Immediately update the PHPXMLRPC library to version 1.1.2 or later, and check if the used products (Drupal, phpAdsNew, phpPgAds, phpgroupware) have available security patches.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS