CVE-2005-2956
ATutor 1.5.1, and possibly earlier versions, stores temporary chat logs under the web document root with insufficient access control and predictable filenames, which allows remote attackers to obtain user chat conversations via direct requests to those…
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 2.9%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
ATutor 1.5.1, and possibly earlier versions, stores temporary chat logs under the web document root with insufficient access control and predictable filenames, which allows remote attackers to obtain user chat conversations via direct requests to those files.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.87% probability · 87th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 14 September 2005
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- adaptive technology resource centre/atutor
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112671176100432&w=2
- http://rgod.altervista.org/atutor151.htmlExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14832Exploit
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112671176100432&w=2
- http://rgod.altervista.org/atutor151.htmlExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14832Exploit
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.