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Debian DSA-1791-1 : moin - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38696

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that the AttachFile action in moin, a python clone of WikiWiki, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks when renaming attachements or performing other sub-actions.

The oldstable distribution (etch) is not vulnerable.

Solution

Upgrade the moin packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.1-3+lenny2.

For the testing (squeeze) distribution and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526594

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1791

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38696

File Name: debian_DSA-1791.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:moin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1482

CWE: 79

DSA: 1791