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CVE-2005-2256

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2256 is an encoded directory traversal vulnerability affecting phpPgAdmin versions 3.1 through 3.5.3, allowing remote attackers to access arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and without authentication to achieve partial confidentiality impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, and its FAUCET Risk Score of 87/100 suggests a significant potential risk despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phppgadmin:phppgadmin:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phppgadmin:phppgadmin:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phppgadmin:phppgadmin:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phppgadmin:phppgadmin:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phppgadmin:phppgadmin:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-25938 · Jul 5, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0464 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/dailydave/2005-q3/0010.html
secunia.com / advisories/15941
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/16116
securitytracker.com / id
Exploit
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-759
securityfocus.com / bid/14142
Exploit
vuxml.org / freebsd/88188a8c-eff6-11d9-8310-0001020eed82.html
Vendor Advisory