CVE-2009-4762: High severity MoinMoin vulnerability

Published Mar 29, 2010
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Updated

MoinMoin 1.7.x before 1.7.3 and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 checks parent ACLs in certain inappropriate circumstances during processing of hierarchical ACLs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by requesting an item, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-6603.

Affected Software

8 affected componentsFixes available
pip/moin>=1.8.0<1.8.3
1.8.3
pip/moin>=1.7.0<1.7.3
1.7.3
MoinMoin=1.7.0
MoinMoin=1.7.1
MoinMoin=1.7.2
MoinMoin=1.8.0
MoinMoin=1.8.1
MoinMoin=1.8.2

Remediation

Patch Available

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/rev/897cdbe9e8f2

Patch Available

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/rev/897cdbe9e8f2

Event History

Mar 29, 2010
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:00 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:00 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·08:30 PM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
May 2, 2022
Advisory Published
via GitHub·03:57 AM
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