PT-2009-2018 · Moinmoin · Moinmoin

Published 2009-03-30 · Updated 2024-02-02 · CVE-2008-6548

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MoinMoin version 1.6.1

Description The issue concerns the rst parser in MoinMoin, which fails to check the ACL of an included page. This allows attackers to read unauthorized include files via unknown vectors.

Recommendations For MoinMoin version 1.6.1, consider restricting access to the parser/text rst.py module to minimize the risk of exploitation until a patch is available.

Fix

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-6548

GHSA-JHXW-4HW4-MHH7

PYSEC-2009-11

Affected Products

Moinmoin

References · 13

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6548 · Security Note
• http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/35ff7a9b1546 · Vendor Advisory
• http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-6548 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2009-11 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jhxw-4hw4-mhh7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moinwiki/moin · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/moin/PYSEC-2009-11.yaml · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20211206185024/http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/35ff7a9b1546 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6548 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/69681 · Telegram Post
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080523123729/http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/raw-file/1.6.2/docs/CHANGES · Note
• http://osvdb.org/48877 · Note