CVE-2008-5886

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2008-5886 · Published 12/01/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5886 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting discussion web (takempis).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
discussion web takempis	`= 4.0`	No fix yet

Description

TAKempis Discussion Web 4.0 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download the database file containing a password via a direct request for _private/discussion.mdb. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

securityreason.com/securityalert/4899
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47348
exploit-db.com/exploits/7445

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