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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-2498 json

Eval injection vulnerability in PHPXMLRPC 1.1.1 and earlier (PEAR XML-RPC for PHP), as used in multiple products including (1) Drupal, (2)…

published 2005-08-15 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-2499

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.1%
EPSS 5.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • php RHEL 3 4.3.2-25.ent
  • php RHEL 4 4.3.9-3.8
  • php-gd RHEL 4 4.3.9-3.8
  • php-imap RHEL 3 4.3.2-25.ent
  • php-imap RHEL 4 4.3.9-3.8
  • php-ldap RHEL 3 4.3.2-25.ent
  • php-ldap RHEL 4 4.3.9-3.8
  • php-odbc RHEL 3 4.3.2-25.ent

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:748

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-2005-2498 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 php 4.3.2-25.ent, php-imap 4.3.2-25.ent, php-ldap 4.3.2-25.ent, php-odbc 4.3.2-25.ent, php-mysql 4.3.2-25.ent, php-pgsql 4.3.2-25.ent Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 php 4.3.2-25.ent, php-imap 4.3.2-25.ent, php-ldap 4.3.2-25.ent, php-odbc 4.3.2-25.ent, php-mysql 4.3.2-25.ent, php-pgsql 4.3.2-25.ent Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 php 4.3.9-3.8, php-gd 4.3.9-3.8, php-imap 4.3.9-3.8, php-ldap 4.3.9-3.8, php-odbc 4.3.9-3.8, php-pear 4.3.9-3.8, +7 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 php 4.3.9-3.8, php-gd 4.3.9-3.8, php-imap 4.3.9-3.8, php-ldap 4.3.9-3.8, php-odbc 4.3.9-3.8, php-pear 4.3.9-3.8, +7 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 php 4.3.2-25.ent, php-imap 4.3.2-25.ent, php-ldap 4.3.2-25.ent, php-odbc 4.3.2-25.ent, php-mysql 4.3.2-25.ent, php-pgsql 4.3.2-25.ent Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 php 4.3.9-3.8, php-gd 4.3.9-3.8, php-imap 4.3.9-3.8, php-ldap 4.3.9-3.8, php-odbc 4.3.9-3.8, php-pear 4.3.9-3.8, +7 more
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 php 4.3.2-25.ent, php-imap 4.3.2-25.ent, php-ldap 4.3.2-25.ent, php-odbc 4.3.2-25.ent, php-mysql 4.3.2-25.ent, php-pgsql 4.3.2-25.ent Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 php 4.3.9-3.8, php-gd 4.3.9-3.8, php-imap 4.3.9-3.8, php-ldap 4.3.9-3.8, php-odbc 4.3.9-3.8, php-pear 4.3.9-3.8, +7 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:748

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Exploit prediction

5.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% 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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

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.