CVE-2005-2540

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Published Aug 10, 2005 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 6.1% KEV · Not listed

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.

Affected Products

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

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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.

Metrics

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.

Exploit prediction score: 6.1% (6.102% probability within 30 days)

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

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 10:30 PM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Aug 10, 2005, 4:00 AM
Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 10:30 PM
Reserved: Aug 10, 2005, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 10:15 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Aug 10, 2005, 4:00 AM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 10:15 PM

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