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Medium · 4.3 Public exploit CVE-2012-6495 EUVD-2013-0021GHSA-6gx4-29v9-g9q5PYSEC-2013-7

MoinMoin Multiple vulnerable to directory traversal

Published Jan 3, 2013 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Package: moin Ecosystem: PyPI

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (1) twikidraw (action/twikidraw.py) and (2) anywikidraw (action/anywikidraw.py) actions in MoinMoin before 1.9.6 allow remote authenticated users with write permissions to overwrite arbitrary files via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this can be leveraged with CVE-2012-6081 to execute arbitrary code.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 6.0 moin 1.9.3-1+squeeze4 DSA-2593-1

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 2

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI moin < 1.9.6 1.9.6 GHSA-6gx4-29v9-g9q5

Advisories 1

References