CVE-2004-1788

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ASP-Nuke 1.3 and earlier places user credentials under the web document root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to main.mdb.

Published: 2004-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2004-1788 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.04%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.98% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2004-1788

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
23516 exploit_db edb 2004-01-04 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2004-1788

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-07-31 3.05% 5.04% +1.98%
2 2025-03-17 1.22% 3.05% +1.84%
3 2024-11-15 1.22%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2004-1788

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2004-1788

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2004-1788

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
asp-nuke asp-nuke 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:asp-nuke:asp-nuke:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
asp-nuke asp-nuke 1.2 cpe:2.3:a:asp-nuke:asp-nuke:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
asp-nuke asp-nuke 1.3 cpe:2.3:a:asp-nuke:asp-nuke:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2004-1788

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