CVE-2008-2857

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2008-2857 · Published 25/06/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-2857 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting askme (alstrasoft).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 81.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
askme alstrasoft	`≤ 2.1`	No fix yet

Description

AlstraSoft AskMe Pro 2.1 and earlier stores passwords in cleartext in a MySQL database, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information.

References

exploit-db.com/exploits/5821

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