{"id":"CVE-2008-6356","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2008-6356","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:12.717Z","title":"evCal Events Calendar stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download a database containing the username and password via a direct request to (1) evcal.mdb and (2) evcal97.mdb.","description":"evCal Events Calendar stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download a database containing the username and password via a direct request to (1) evcal.mdb and (2) evcal97.mdb.","published":"2009-03-02T16:30:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:02:05.000Z","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":["CWE-264"],"affected":["donnafontenot/evcal events calendar"],"epss":{"score":0.02587,"percentile":0.85148,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2008-12-11","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":7419,"kind":"exploit","title":"evCal Events Calendar - Database Disclosure","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7419","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/asp/webapps/7419.txt","file":"exploits/asp/webapps/7419.txt","published":"2008-12-11","added":"2008-12-10","updated":null,"author":"Cyber-Zone","type":"webapps","platform":"asp","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["OSVDB-52500","CVE-2008-6356","OSVDB-52499"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"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 2.6%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/34258","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47265","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7419","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/34258","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47265","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7419","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6356","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."}