CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9615

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-06-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-532, CWE-732

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 configurations

• cognito moneyworks (<= 8.0.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-209 Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information weakness
  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File weakness

References