CVE-2017-9615

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2017-9615 · Published 26/06/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-9615 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting moneyworks (cognito).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
moneyworks cognito	`≤ 8.0.3`	No fix yet

Description

Password exposure in Cognito Software Moneyworks 8.0.3 and earlier allows attackers to gain administrator access to all data, because verbose logging writes the administrator password to a world-readable file.

References

cognito.co.nz/mwcommunity/viewtopic.php · Vendor Advisory
gist.github.com/ari/e0dd74c12d84f102e3bcb365118e8c30 · Third Party Advisory

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