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CVE-2005-0638

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0638 describes a command injection vulnerability in xloadimage before 4.1-r2 and xli before 1.17. Attackers can execute arbitrary commands by crafting filenames for compressed images that contain shell metacharacters, which are not properly sanitized before being passed to the gunzip command. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity with network access, low attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xli:xli:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xli:xli:1.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xli:xli:1.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xli:xli:1.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:altlinux:alt_linux:2.3:*:compact:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0360 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: xloadimage-0:4.1-34.RHEL3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: xloadimage-0:4.1-34.RHEL4
View patch
debianvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0638Low

security flaw

Feb 18, 2005

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/14459
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/14462
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10898
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-134_RHSA-2005-332.pdf
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-695
Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 14365
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-332.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/433935/30/5010/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/12712