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PYSEC-2013-5

Quick fix

PYSEC-2013-5 — moin: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'moin>=1.9.6'

Details

Directory traversal vulnerability in the _do_attachment_move function in the AttachFile action (action/AttachFile.py) in MoinMoin 1.9.3 through 1.9.5 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a file name.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/moin

Introduced in: 1.9.3Fixed in: 1.9.6

Fixpip install --upgrade 'moin>=1.9.6'

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/51663[ADVISORY]
http://secunia.com/advisories/51696[ADVISORY]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/6[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57076[WEB]
http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes[WEB]
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2593[ADVISORY]
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/rev/3c27131a3c52[WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/moin/+bug/1094599[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/51676[ADVISORY]
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1680-1[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v33q-2xcj-4f3m[ADVISORY]