CVE-2005-1921 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2005-1921?

CVE-2005-1921 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 Jul 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Eval injection vulnerability in PEAR XML_RPC 1.3.0 and earlier (aka XML-RPC or xmlrpc) and PHPXMLRPC (aka XML-RPC For PHP or php-xmlrpc) 1.1 and earlier, as used in products such as (1) WordPress, (2) Serendipity, (3) Drupal, (4) egroupware, (5) MailWatch, (6) TikiWiki, (7) phpWebSite, (8) Ampache, and others, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via an XML file, which is not properly sanitized before being used in an eval statement.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1921?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Drupal Drupal, Gggeek Phpxmlrpc, Php Xml Rpc, Tiki Tikiwiki Cms\/Groupware.

How do I fix CVE-2005-1921?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2005-1921 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-1921 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 5 Exploit-DB entries.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CVE-2005-2116, DSA-746-1, DSA-747-1, GHSA-7mjj-9265-43wm.