moinwiki/moin · Security
MoinMoin Denial of Service vulnerability via password_checker function
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-wjjc-m3fc-fcm8
- CVE ID
- CVE-2008-6549
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
The password_checker function in config/multiconfig.py in MoinMoin prior to version 1.6.1 uses the cracklib and python-crack features even though they are not thread-safe, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via unknown vectors.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6549 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080410051007/http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211206185024/http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/35ff7a9b1546 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/moin/PYSEC-2009-12.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wjjc-m3fc-fcm8 ↗