CVE-2008-6493 — Easy Content Management Publishing stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download a database via a direct request for Database/News.mdb

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MEDIUM

Easy Content Management Publishing stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download a database via a direct request for Database/News.mdb

Published Mar 20, 2009

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.23%

Description

Easy Content Management Publishing stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download a database via a direct request for Database/News.mdb.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.23% 0.02229

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

EPSS probability 0.02229

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	2.23% (0.02229)	82.12th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.23% (0.02229)	80.38th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Nov 9, 2025	3.98% (0.03977)	87.88th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	1.82% (0.01824)	81.68th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.32% (0.00320)	71.43th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.32% (0.00320)	69.78th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 28, 2023	0.32% (0.00320)	67.26th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 17, 2023	0.28% (0.00282)	64.70th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.23% (0.00231)	59.44th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	4.19% (0.04187)	87.39th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	4.19% (0.04187)	86.11th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	4.19% (0.04187)	69.86th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (2)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49392
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7340
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49392		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7340		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 20, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Mar 19, 2009

Link CVE-2008-6493

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-6493

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-6493