CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-0089
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The SimpleXMLRPCServer library module in Python 2.2, 2.3 before 2.3.5, and 2.4, when used by XML-RPC servers that use the register_instance method to register an object without a _dispatch method, allows remote attackers to read or modify globals of the associated module, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via dotted attributes.
Affected configurations
• python python (< 2.3.5)
• python python 2.4.0
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746469728728&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/patch-2.2.txt Broken Link, Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14128 Broken Link
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1013083 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-666 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:035 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/ Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-108.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12437 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19217 VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9811 Broken Link
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746469728728&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/patch-2.2.txt Broken Link, Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14128 Broken Link
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1013083 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-666 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:035 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/ Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-108.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12437 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19217 VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9811 Broken Link