CVE-2005-4699

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-88

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in TellMe 1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to modify command line arguments for the Whois program and obtain sensitive information via "--" style options in the q_Host parameter.

Affected products

Kimihia Tellme: through 1.2

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0107.html
http://exploitlabs.com/files/advisories/EXPL-A-2005-015-tellme.txt
http://kimihia.org.nz/projects/tellme/files/tellme-1.2-1.3.diff
http://secunia.com/advisories/17078
http://www.osvdb.org/19871
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22522
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0107.html
http://exploitlabs.com/files/advisories/EXPL-A-2005-015-tellme.txt
http://kimihia.org.nz/projects/tellme/files/tellme-1.2-1.3.diff
http://secunia.com/advisories/17078
http://www.osvdb.org/19871
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22522

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