CVE-2005-2498

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.

Published: 2005-08-15 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2005-2498 is rated Moderate Risk (62.3/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.09%, 91th percentile). EPSS ranks this CVE among the most likely to be exploited in the near term. High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-2498

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 4.69% 5.09% +0.40%
2 2025-03-30 8.74% 4.69% -4.05%
3 2025-03-29 — 8.74% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-2498

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2005-2498

OS Trackers for CVE-2005-2498

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2005-2498: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2005-2498
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-2498
ubuntu medium CVE-2005-2498 medium priority: Ubuntu including 5 source packages (drupal, egroupware, php4, php5, phpgroupware), 30 status rows across 6 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, hardy, upstream): released 17, DNE 5, needs-triage 5, not-affected 2, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2005-2498

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-2498

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gggeek phpxmlrpc <= 1.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:gggeek:phpxmlrpc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 3.1 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-2498

URL Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112412415822890&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112431497300344&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16431 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16432 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16441 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16460 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16465 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16468 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16469 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16491 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16550 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16558 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16563 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16619 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16635 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16693 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16976 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/17053 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/17066 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/17440 Broken Link
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-789 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-798 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-840 Mailing List
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-842 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-28-FLSA_2005_166943__Updated_php_packages_fix_security_issues.html Broken Link
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-19.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_152005.67.html Not Applicable Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_49_php.html Broken Link
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-748.html Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408125 Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14560 Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9569 Broken Link
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