Cross-site scripting in MoinMoin - CVE-2017-5934
Published: October 18, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU15421
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5934
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the link dialogue in GUI editor in MoinMoin before 1.9.10. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
MoinMoin
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2017-5934
Install update from vendor's website.
MoinMoin - update to 1.9.10
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-10/msg00024.html
- http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
- https://github.com/moinwiki/moin-1.9/commit/70955a8eae091cc88fd9a6e510177e70289ec024
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00007.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3794-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4318