CVE-2005-2540 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in FlatNuke 2.5.5 and possibly earlier versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands via an ASCII char 13 (carriage return) in the signature field, which is injected into a PHP script without a preceding comment character, which can then be executed by a direct request.

Published: 2005-08-10

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 6.3% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:flatnuke:flatnuke:2.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-2541	CRLF injection vulnerability in FlatNuke 2.5.5 and possibly earlier versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands via an ASCII char 13 (carriage return) in the signature field, which is injected into a PHP script without a preceding comment character, which can then be executed by a direct request.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0632.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112327238030127&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/16330
http://www.osvdb.org/18554
http://www.rgod.altervista.org/flatnuke.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14485
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21709

History

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Subscriptions

Flatnuke Flatnuke

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-08-10T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:30:01.732Z

Reserved: 2005-08-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-2540

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-08-10T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-2540

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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