CVE-2008-6603
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
MoinMoin 1.6.2 and 1.7 does not properly enforce ACL checks when acl_hierarchic is set to True, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1937.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6603
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41911
- https://github.com/moinwiki/moin
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/moin/PYSEC-2009-13.yaml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080511110948/http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/543ae9bdbe26
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090730023652/http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/AclHierarchicPageAclSupercededByAclRightsAfter
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200301063229/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34655
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211207023130/http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/rev/88356b3f849a
- http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/543ae9bdbe26
- http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/rev/88356b3f849a
- http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/AclHierarchicPageAclSupercededByAclRightsAfter
- http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
- http://osvdb.org/48875
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34655
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1307
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.