CVE-2005-2877

highpriority · attend · 65EPSS 0.709 · 99 %ileexploit · weaponizedEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

4 exploits · weaponized

Likely / severe?

70.9% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The history (revision control) function in TWiki 02-Sep-2004 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters, as demonstrated via the rev parameter to TWikiUsers.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-78USLLM-inferred

exploits (4)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

exploit/unix/webapp/twiki_historyTWiki History Function Arbitrary Command Executionweaponized · metasploit
EDB-16892TWiki History TWikiUsers - 'rev' Command Execution (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
EDB-26260TWiki TWikiUsers - Arbitrary Command Executionfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-26302TWiki TWikiUsers - INCLUDE Function Arbitrary Command Executionfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
twiki twiki= 2000-12-01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:twiki:twiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
twiki twiki= 2001-12-01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:twiki:twiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
twiki twiki= 2003-02-01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:twiki:twiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
twiki twiki= 2004-09-01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:twiki:twiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
twiki twiki= 2004-09-02nvdUScpe:2.3:a:twiki:twiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2005-09-16modified 2026-06-16

references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112680475417550&w=2 enisa_euvd
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithRev enisa_euvd
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/757181 enisa_euvd
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14834 enisa_euvd
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112680475417550&w=2 nvd
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithRevPatchVendor Advisorynvd
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/757181PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resourcenvd
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14834ExploitPatchnvd

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