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high 7.5

CVE-2005-2877 in the critical feed json

The history (revision control) function in TWiki 02-Sep-2004 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metach…

published 2005-09-16 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-2877

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
70.9%
EPSS 70.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
4
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

The history (revision control) function in TWiki 02-Sep-2004 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters, as demonstrated via the rev parameter to TWikiUsers.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/unix/webapp/twiki_history)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

70.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/unix/webapp/twiki_history TWiki History Function Arbitrary Command Execution metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2005-09-14
  • EDB-26302 TWiki TWikiUsers - INCLUDE Function Arbitrary Command Execution webapps, 2005-09-28
  • EDB-26260 TWiki TWikiUsers - Arbitrary Command Execution webapps, 2005-09-14
  • EDB-16892 TWiki History TWikiUsers - 'rev' Command Execution (Metasploit) webapps, 2010-07-03
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14834 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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.