CVE-2008-5935

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-01-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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

Affected products

Factosystem Weblog: all versions

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4934
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499125/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47278
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4934
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499125/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47278

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