CVE-2005-2005 — Ultimate PHP Board (UPB) 1.9.6 GOLD and earlier stores the users.dat file under the web document root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information on registered users via a direct request to db/users.dat

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Ultimate PHP Board (UPB) 1.9.6 GOLD and earlier stores the users.dat file under the web document root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information on registered users via a direct request to db/users.dat

Published Jun 20, 2005

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.21%

Description

Ultimate PHP Board (UPB) 1.9.6 GOLD and earlier stores the users.dat file under the web document root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information on registered users via a direct request to db/users.dat.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.21% 0.01212

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

EPSS probability 0.01212

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 (12 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.21% (0.01212)	67.40th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.21% (0.01212)	64.41th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.31% (0.00306)	51.66th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.55% (0.00547)	78.21th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 27, 2024	0.55% (0.00547)	77.40th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.50% (0.00502)	75.72th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 10, 2023	0.50% (0.00502)	73.64th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.49% (0.00488)	72.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111893777504821&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/15732
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111893777504821&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/15732		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 20, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jun 20, 2005

Link CVE-2005-2005

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-2005

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-2005