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MoinMoin Unspecified Security Bypass Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA11832  
Release Date: 2004-08-27

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:MoinMoin 1.x

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Description:
Two unspecified vulnerabilities have been reported in MoinMoin, which potentially can be exploited by malicious users to bypass access controls.

1) An unspecified access control error exists within the PageEditor.

2) When ACLs are not used, the application uses some erroneous and inadequate functions to determine user permissions. This could potentially allow anonymous users to perform actions, which should be restricted to other users.

Solution:
Update to version 1.2.3.
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Dr. Pleger
2) Reported by vendor.

Other References:
OSVDB:
http://www.osvdb.org/8194
http://www.osvdb.org/8195



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7 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. MoinMoin Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
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5. MoinMoin Unspecified Search ACL Security Bypass Vulnerability
6. MoinMoin Administrative Group Name Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
7. MoinMoin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


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