CVE-2005-1055: Towerblog

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

TowerBlog 0.6 and earlier stores the login data file under the web root, which allows remote attackers to obtain the MD5 checksums of the username and password via a direct request to the _dat/login file.

Affected products

• Towerblog Towerblog: version 0.2 only; version 0.4_r1 only; version 0.6 only; version 0.6_r1 only

Published 2005-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.