SB2013010306 - Path traversal in MoinMoin
Published: January 3, 2013 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013010306
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-6495)
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to read and manipulate data.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/rev/7e7e1cbb9d3f
- http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinRelease1.9
- http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51696
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1680-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2593
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/29/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/4
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/moin/+bug/1094599