CVE-2008-6603

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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

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