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high 7.5

CVE-2005-0638 json

xloadimage before 4.1-r2, and xli before 1.17, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in filenames for com…

published 2005-03-02 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0639

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

xloadimage before 4.1-r2, and xli before 1.17, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in filenames for compressed images, which are not properly quoted when calling the gunzip command.

Patch / fix

  • xli Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.17.0-18
  • xloadimage Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.1-14.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0638

  • xloadimage RHEL 3 4.1-34.RHEL3
  • xloadimage RHEL 4 4.1-34.RHEL4

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:332

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-0638 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 xloadimage 4.1-34.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 xloadimage 4.1-34.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 xloadimage 4.1-34.RHEL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 xloadimage 4.1-34.RHEL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 xloadimage 4.1-34.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 xloadimage 4.1-34.RHEL4
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 xloadimage 4.1-34.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 xloadimage 4.1-34.RHEL4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:332

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.