MoinMoin PageEditor Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:10801

Info

MoinMoin PageEditor Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 10801
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 26 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 26 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Dr. Pleger.
Vulnerable: MoinMoin MoinMoin 1.2.2
Not Vulnerable: MoinMoin MoinMoin 1.2.3

Discussion

MoinMoin PageEditor Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

MoinMoin is reported prone to an unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue is related to the PageEditor functionality. Specifically this vulnerability may arise due to improper implementation of access control lists. A remote attacker may exploit this to gain elevated privileges.

Due to a lack of details, further information is not available at the moment. This BID will be updated as more information becomes available.

This issues is identified in MoinMoin version 1.2.2, however, other versions may be affected as well.

Exploit / POC

MoinMoin PageEditor Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

MoinMoin PageEditor Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released MoinMoin version 1.2.3 to address this issue.

Gentoo has released an advisory (GLSA 200408-25) to address issues in MoinMoin. Please see the referenced advisory for more information. Gentoo users can carry out the following commands to update their computers:

emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=net-ww/moinmoin-1.2.3"
emerge ">=net-ww/moinmoin-1.2.3"


MoinMoin MoinMoin 1.2.2

References

MoinMoin PageEditor Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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