CVE-2017-9615

critical

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.

References

https://gist.github.com/ari/e0dd74c12d84f102e3bcb365118e8c30

http://cognito.co.nz/mwcommunity/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3542

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-26

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00312