CVE-2008-6947

Exp

Collabtive 0.4.8 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and create new users, including administrators, via unspecified vectors associated with the added mode in a users action to admin.php.

Published: 2009-08-12 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published

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Threat Intelligence & Risk Assessment for CVE-2008-6947

EPSS CVSS CWE Exploit-DB Affected

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-6947 is rated High Exploit Risk (82.9/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.87%, 94th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +5.11% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-6947

EDB-ID	Source	Kind	Published	Link
7076	exploit_db	edb	2008-11-10	Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-6947

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	2.76%	7.87%	+5.11%
2	2025-12-19	1.59%	2.76%	+1.18%
3	2025-05-30	—	1.59%	—

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-6947

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-2008-6947

CWE-287 MITRE ↗

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-6947

Vendor	Product	Version	Raw CPE
collabtive	collabtive	0.4.8	cpe:2.3:a:collabtive:collabtive:0.4.8:::::::*

References for CVE-2008-6947

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498186/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32229
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46497
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7076

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