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Vulnerability record · CVE-2005-3539 · published 31 December 2005

CVE-2005-3539: Hylafax vulnerability

Hylafax · Hylafax

Multiple eval injection vulnerabilities in HylaFAX 4.2.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via (1) the notify script in HylaFAX 4.2.0 to 4.2.3 and (2) crafted CallID parameters to the faxrcvd script in HylaFAX 4.2.2 and 4.2.3.

7.5 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 13% · top 3.9%
7.5CVSS 2.0 base score
13%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
24References, 2 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Multiple eval injection vulnerabilities in HylaFAX 4.2.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via (1) the notify script in HylaFAX 4.2.0 to 4.2.3 and (2) crafted CallID parameters to the faxrcvd script in HylaFAX 4.2.2 and 4.2.3.

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

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=719
http://secunia.com/advisories/18314 PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18337 PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18366
http://secunia.com/advisories/18489
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-933
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-03.xml PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.hylafax.org/content/HylaFAX_4.2.4_release
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:015
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420974/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16151 ExploitPatch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0072
http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=719
http://secunia.com/advisories/18314 PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18337 PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18366
http://secunia.com/advisories/18489
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-933
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-03.xml PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.hylafax.org/content/HylaFAX_4.2.4_release
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:015
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420974/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16151 ExploitPatch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0072

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2005-3539), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.