Vulnerability CVE-2008-5900
Published: 2009-01-12   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
CodeAvalanche Articles stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download the database file containing the administrator password via a direct request for _private/CAArticles.mdb. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
CodeAvalanche Articles (CAArticles.mdb) Database Disclosure Vuln
Pouya_Server
14.01.2009

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Codeavalanche -> Articles 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47351
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/7471
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4909
http://secunia.com/advisories/33100
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