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PYSEC-2026-668

MoinMoin Directory traversal vulnerability

Details

Directory traversal vulnerability in MoinMoin 1.5.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a `..` (dot dot) in the MOIN_ID user ID in a cookie for a userform action. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged for PHP code execution via the quicklinks parameter. The issue has been fixed on [e69a16b6e630](http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/e69a16b6e630).

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Affected packages

PyPI/moin

Introduced in: 0

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0782[ADVISORY]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39837[WEB]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/716-1[WEB]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4957[WEB]
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/e69a16b6e630[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/29010[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/29262[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/29444[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/33755[WEB]
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-January/001890.html[WEB]
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1514[WEB]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-27.xml[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27404[WEB]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0569/references[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/moin[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6766-r2rx-mfw9[ADVISORY]