Vulnerability in Py2play

CVE-2005-2875

Py2Play allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code via pickled objects, which Py2Play unpickles and executes.

Published 2005-09-13 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (79.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Py2play

References

secunia.com/advisories/16855 (third-party-advisory)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Vendor Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-856 (vendor-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/14864 (vdb-entry)
secunia.com/advisories/17106 (third-party-advisory)
soya.literati.org/ (Vendor Advisory)
www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-09.xml (vendor-advisory)
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi (Vendor Advisory)