CVE-2008-5873

Exp

Yerba SACphp 6.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative access via a galleta[sesion] cookie that has a value beginning with 1:1: followed by a username.

Published: 2009-01-08 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-5873 is rated High Exploit Risk (75.2/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.40%). 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-2008-5873

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
6691 exploit_db edb 2008-10-07 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5873

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 2026-02-28 1.88% 2.40% +0.52%
2 2026-01-08 1.69% 1.88% +0.19%
3 2025-12-15 1.69%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5873

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 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:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-5873

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5873

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
yerba yerba <= 6.3 cpe:2.3:a:yerba:yerba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yerba yerba 6.28 cpe:2.3:a:yerba:yerba:6.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5873

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