Bug 580100 (CVE-2010-1238) - CVE-2010-1238 MoinMoin textcha bypass flaw
Summary: CVE-2010-1238 MoinMoin textcha bypass flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2010-1238
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 580102
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-04-07 13:47 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-04-07 15:54:15 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2010-04-07 13:47:00 UTC 
Name: CVE-2010-1238
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1238
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Assigned: 20100405
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Reference: DEBIAN:DSA-2024
Reference: URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2024

MoinMoin 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to bypass the textcha
protection mechanism by modifying the textcha-question and
textcha-answer fields to have empty values.

Upstream fix:
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/rev/a952d07dea69
Comment 1 Ville-Pekka Vainio 2010-04-07 14:27:46 UTC 
This doesn't affect the Fedora packages. The fix has been made over one and a half years ago and has since made its way into the 1.8 and 1.9 releases, which are currently in Fedora 11 - 13. It seems the only reason this vulnerability got a CVE identifier now is that Debian stable uses such an old version of Moin.
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2010-04-07 15:54:15 UTC 
Thanks for the quick response. I'm going to close this bug then.
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