The Debian 'moin' package on Debian 6 is affected by privilege escalation and lack of expected permissions due to incorrectly evaluated ACLs involving virtual groups. Update to version 1.9.3-1+squeeze2 or later
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 39 |
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![]() | Fedora Update for moin FEDORA-2012-13408 | 22 Sep 201200:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Fedora Update for moin FEDORA-2012-13400 | 22 Sep 201200:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | FreeBSD Ports: moinmoin | 7 Sep 201200:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | MoinMoin 1.9 < 1.9.5 ACL Security Vulnerability - Linux | 12 Feb 201800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Fedora Update for moin FEDORA-2012-13400 | 22 Sep 201200:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | FreeBSD Ports: moinmoin | 7 Sep 201200:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Debian Security Advisory DSA 2538-1 (moin) | 15 Sep 201200:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Fedora Update for moin FEDORA-2012-13408 | 22 Sep 201200:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | MoinMoin 1.9 < 1.9.5 ACL Security Vulnerability - Windows | 12 Feb 201800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Ubuntu Update for moin USN-1604-1 | 12 Oct 201200:00 | – | openvas |
Source | Link |
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security-tracker | www.security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2538 |
debian | www.debian.org/security/2012/DSA-2538-1 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.72167");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-4404");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-09-15 08:23:38 +0000 (Sat, 15 Sep 2012)");
script_version("2024-02-01T14:37:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-01 14:37:10 +0000 (Thu, 01 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_name("Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2538-1)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB6");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"DSA-2538-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2012/DSA-2538-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2538");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'moin' package(s) announced via the DSA-2538-1 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"It was discovered that Moin, a Python clone of WikiWiki, incorrectly evaluates ACLs when virtual groups are involved. This may allow certain users to have additional permissions (privilege escalation) or lack expected permissions.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.3-1+squeeze2.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.4-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your moin packages.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'moin' package(s) on Debian 6.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "DEB6") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"python-moinmoin", ver:"1.9.3-1+squeeze2", rls:"DEB6"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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