moinwiki/moin · Security
MoinMoin vulnerable to privilege escalation
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-rqxp-6926-hphr
- CVE ID
- CVE-2008-1937
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
The user form processing (userform.py) in MoinMoin before 1.6.3, when using ACLs or a non-empty superusers list, does not properly manage users, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges.
CWEs
- CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1937 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41909 ↗
- http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-09.xml ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080628213526/http://secunia.com/advisories/29894 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080724211750/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28869 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081002145815/http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/f405012e67af ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081007072837/http://secunia.com/advisories/30160 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/moin/PYSEC-2008-12.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqxp-6926-hphr ↗