CVE-2005-0638

Xli vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.6%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

xloadimage before 4.1-r2, and xli before 1.17, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in filenames for compressed images, which are not properly quoted when calling the gunzip command.

Affected vendor

Xli

Affected product

Xli

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2005-03-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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