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USN-1680-1: MoinMoin vulnerabilities

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USN-1680-1: MoinMoin vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/29/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/29/2012
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input whenprocessing AnyWikiDraw and TWikiDraw actions. A remote attacker with writeaccess could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files and executearbitrary code with the priviliges of the web server (user 'www-data'). It was discovered that MoinMoin also did not properly sanitize its inputwhen processing the AttachFile action. A remote attacker could exploitthis to overwrite files via directory traversal. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. LP: 1094599

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-moinmoin

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