Executive Summary

Summary
Title MoinMoin: Privilege escalation
Informations
Name GLSA-200805-09 First vendor Publication 2008-05-11
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-05-11
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in MoinMoin may allow a remote attacker to elevate his privileges.

Background

MoinMoin is an advanced and extensible Wiki Engine.

Description

It has been reported that the user form processing in the file userform.py does not properly manage users when using Access Control Lists or a non-empty superusers list.

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain superuser privileges on the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All MoinMoin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/moinmoin-1.6.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-1937 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1937

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-09.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-09.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200805-09 (moinmoin)
File : nvt/glsa_200805_09.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: moinmoin
File : nvt/freebsd_moinmoin2.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
44613 MoinMoin userform.py User Management Remote Privilege Escalation

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-06-16 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_c4ba95b239ce11dd98c900163e000016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-13 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200805-09.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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