CVE-2005-2498: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.1 only
• Gggeek Phpxmlrpc: up to and including 1.1.1

Published 2005-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.