CVE-2002-2301 — Lawson Financials 8.0, when configured to use a third party relational database, stores usernames and passwords in a world-readable file, which allows local users to read the passwords and log onto the database

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Lawson Financials 8.0, when configured to use a third party relational database, stores usernames and passwords in a world-readable file, which allows local users to read the passwords and log onto the database

Published Oct 18, 2007

3.3

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.27%

Description

Lawson Financials 8.0, when configured to use a third party relational database, stores usernames and passwords in a world-readable file, which allows local users to read the passwords and log onto the database.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.27% 0.00274

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00274

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.27% (0.00274)	17.90th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.27% (0.00274)	18.92th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00060)	15.88th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-255

References (3)

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2002/Dec/0012.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6293
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10742
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2002/Dec/0012.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6293		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10742		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 18, 2007

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Oct 17, 2007

Link CVE-2002-2301

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2002-2301

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2002-2301