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CVE-2017-9615

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-532

Description

Password exposure in Cognito Software Moneyworks 8.0.3 and earlier allows attackers to gain administrator access to all data, because verbose logging writes the administrator password to a world-readable file.

Affected products

• Cognito Moneyworks: through 8.0.3

References

• http://cognito.co.nz/mwcommunity/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3542
• https://gist.github.com/ari/e0dd74c12d84f102e3bcb365118e8c30
• http://cognito.co.nz/mwcommunity/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3542
• https://gist.github.com/ari/e0dd74c12d84f102e3bcb365118e8c30

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