{"id":"CVE-2017-9615","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-9615","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:10:06.068Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2017-06-26T07:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:28:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-532","CWE-732"],"affected":["cognito/moneyworks"],"epss":{"score":0.01401,"percentile":0.72368,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.40%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://cognito.co.nz/mwcommunity/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3542","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://gist.github.com/ari/e0dd74c12d84f102e3bcb365118e8c30","tags":["Third Party Advisory","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://cognito.co.nz/mwcommunity/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3542","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://gist.github.com/ari/e0dd74c12d84f102e3bcb365118e8c30","tags":["Third Party Advisory","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9615","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."}