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GLSA-200407-09 : MoinMoin: Group ACL bypass

high Nessus Plugin ID 14542

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200407-09 (MoinMoin: Group ACL bypass)

 MoinMoin contains a bug in the code handling administrative group ACLs.
 A user created with the same name as an administrative group gains the privileges of the administrative group.
 Impact :

 If an administrative group called AdminGroup existed an attacker could create a user called AdminGroup and gain the privileges of the group AdminGroup. This could lead to unauthorized users gaining administrative access.
 Workaround :

 For every administrative group with special privileges create a user with the same name as the group.

Solution

All users should upgrade to the latest available version of MoinMoin, as follows:
 # emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=www-apps/moinmoin-1.2.2' # emerge '>=www-apps/moinmoin-1.2.2'

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7f29b25

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200407-09

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 14542

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200407-09.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 8/30/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:moinmoin, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0708

GLSA: 200407-09