CVE-2012-4404

medium

Published 2012-09-10 · Modified 2024-05-01

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

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.

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.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	moin	`>=1.9,<1.9.5`	`1.9.5`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
moinmo	moinmoin	`1.9.0`
moinmo	moinmoin	`1.9.1`
moinmo	moinmoin	`1.9.2`
moinmo	moinmoin	`1.9.3`
moinmo	moinmoin	`1.9.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.