Bug 891600 (CVE-2012-6495)

Summary: CVE-2012-6495 moin: Multiple directory traversal flaws in twikidraw and anywikidraw
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: extras-orphan, imlinux+fedora, ivazqueznet, vpvainio
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-01-03 11:22:30 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-6495 to the following vulnerability:

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:
[1]  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6495
[2]  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/29/6
[3]  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/4
[4]  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/moin/+bug/1094599
[5]  http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/rev/7e7e1cbb9d3f
[6]  http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinRelease1.9
[7]  http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
[8]  http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2593
[9]  http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1680-1
[10] http://secunia.com/advisories/51696

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-01-03 11:25:24 UTC
Created moin tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 890906]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 890907]