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PYSEC-2026-671

MoinMoin allows administrative access

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-671 — moin: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'moin>=1.2.2'

Details

MoinMoin 1.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges by creating a user with the same name as an existing group that has higher privileges.

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Affected packages

PyPI/moin

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.2.2

Fixpip install --upgrade 'moin>=1.2.2'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0708[ADVISORY]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16465[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/11807[WEB]
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=948103&group_id=8482&atid=108482[WEB]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200407-09.xml[WEB]
http://www.osvdb.org/6704[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10568[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/moin[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7jrp-r6jx-32cw[ADVISORY]