CVE-2008-5560

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PostEcards stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download the database file via a direct request for postcards.mdb.

Published: 2008-12-15 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-5560 is rated High Exploit Risk (67.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.99%, 90th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2008-5560

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
7398 exploit_db edb 2008-12-09 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5560

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 2026-02-04 5.45% 5.99% +0.54%
2 2025-12-26 2.96% 5.45% +2.49%
3 2025-12-15 2.96%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5560

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-2008-5560

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5560

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
dazzlindonna postecards cpe:2.3:a:dazzlindonna:postecards:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5560

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