VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-0638

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability3.60%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-03-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

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