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Debian DSA-2024-1 : moin - insufficient input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45396

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Synopsis

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

Description

Jamie Strandboge discovered that moin, a python clone of WikiWiki, does not sufficiently sanitize the page name in 'Despam' action, allowing remote attackers to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

In addition, this update fixes a minor issue in the 'textcha' protection, it could be trivially bypassed by blanking the 'textcha-question' and 'textcha-answer' form fields.

Solution

Upgrade the moin package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.1-3+lenny4.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575995

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2024

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45396

File Name: debian_DSA-2024.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2010

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: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/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: 3/31/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0828, CVE-2010-1238

DSA: 2024