Improper Access Control Affecting moin package, versions [1.9,1.9.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-MOIN-40103
  • published10 Sept 2012
  • disclosed10 Sept 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Sep 2012

CVE-2012-4404  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

moin is an easy to use, full-featured and extensible wiki software package.

security/init.py in MoinMoin 1.9 through 1.9.4 does not properly handle group names that contain virtual group names such as "All," "Known," or "Trusted," which allows remote authenticated users with virtual group membership to be treated as a member of the group.

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