CVE-2008-5597: Cold Bbs

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cold BBS 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 db/cforum.mdb.

Affected products

• Cold Bbs Cold Bbs: version _nil_ only

Published 2008-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.