CVE-2008-6189

Exp

SQL injection vulnerability in GForge 4.5.19 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the offset parameter to (1) new/index.php, (2) news/index.php, and (3) top/topusers.php, which is not properly handled in database-pgsql.php.

Published: 2009-02-19 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2008-6189 is rated High Exploit Risk (75.4/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.32%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.99% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. 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-2008-6189

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
6707 exploit_db edb 2008-10-09 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-6189

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 2026-06-15 0.33% 2.32% +1.99%
2 2026-04-11 0.17% 0.33% +0.17%
3 2026-02-19 — 0.17% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-6189

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-2008-6189

OS Trackers for CVE-2008-6189

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2008-6189 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (gforge), 11 status rows across 11 suites (dapper, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): ignored 4, not-affected 4, DNE 2, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-6189

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-6189

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gforge gforge 4.5.19 cpe:2.3:a:gforge:gforge:4.5.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-6189

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