{"id":"CVE-2005-2956","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2005-2956","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:49.791Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2005-09-16T22:03:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:15:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["adaptive technology resource centre/atutor"],"epss":{"score":0.0287,"percentile":0.86703,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2005-09-14","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":26258,"kind":"exploit","title":"ATutor 1.5.1 - Chat Logs Remote Information Disclosure","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26258","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/php/webapps/26258.txt","file":"exploits/php/webapps/26258.txt","published":"2005-09-14","added":"2005-09-14","updated":"2013-06-18","author":"rgod","type":"webapps","platform":"php","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-2005-2956","OSVDB-19413"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14832/info"}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112671176100432&w=2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://rgod.altervista.org/atutor151.html","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/9","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14832","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112671176100432&w=2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rgod.altervista.org/atutor151.html","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/9","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14832","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2956","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}