CVE-2012-6495: MoinMoin Multiple vulnerable to directory traversal

May 17, 2022 (updated September 26, 2024)

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (1) twikidraw (action/twikidraw.py) and (2) anywikidraw (action/anywikidraw.py) actions in MoinMoin before 1.9.6 allow remote authenticated users with write permissions to overwrite arbitrary files via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this can be leveraged with CVE-2012-6081 to execute arbitrary code.

References

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/moin/+bug/1094599
github.com/advisories/GHSA-6gx4-29v9-g9q5
github.com/moinwiki/moin
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/moin/PYSEC-2013-7.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6495
web.archive.org/web/20151017045319/http://secunia.com/advisories/51696

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