HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-6947

Collabtive vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
7.9%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Collabtive 0.4.8 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and create new users, including administrators, via unspecified vectors associated with the added mode in a users action to admin.php.
Affected vendor
Collabtive
Affected product
Collabtive
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-287 — Improper Authentication
Published
2009-08-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-6947

  • Confirm whether Collabtive Collabtive is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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