Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Info pages in MoinMoin 1.5.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) hitcounts and (2) general parameters, different vectors than CVE-2007-0857. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Info pages in MoinMoin 1.5.7 allow remote attackers
    to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) hitcounts and (2) general parameters, different vectors
    than CVE-2007-0857. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely
    from third party information. (CVE-2007-0901)

MoinMoin Security advisory

XSS issue in login action

XSS issue in AttachFile action

XSS issue in RenamePage/DeletePage action

XSS issue in gui editor

A flaw was discovered in MoinMoin's error reporting when using the AttachFile action. By tricking a user into viewing a crafted MoinMoin URL, an attacker could execute arbitrary JavaScript as the current MoinMoin user, possibly exposing the user's authentication information for the domain where MoinMoin was hosted. (CVE-2007-2423)

Flaws were discovered in MoinMoin's ACL handling for calendars and includes. Unauthorized users would be able to read pages that would otherwise be unavailable to them.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A flaw was discovered in MoinMoin's debug reporting sanitizer which could lead to a cross-site scripting attack. By tricking a user into viewing a crafted MoinMoin URL, an attacker could execute arbitrary JavaScript as the current MoinMoin user, possibly exposing the user's authentication information for the domain where MoinMoin was hosted.
Only Ubuntu Breezy was vulnerable. (CVE-2007-0901)

An information leak was discovered in MoinMoin's debug reporting, which could expose information about the versions of software running on the host system. MoinMoin administrators can add 'show_traceback=0' to their site configurations to disable debug tracebacks.
(CVE-2007-0902).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
431736	SCA: security update for Moin (GHSA-9gj2-ph57-56f5)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
431736	SCA: security update for Moin (GHSA-9gj2-ph57-56f5)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
31184	FreeBSD : moinmoin -- multiple vulnerabilities (f113bbeb-e3ac-11dc-bb89-000bcdc1757a)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
28056	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : moin vulnerabilities (USN-458-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
28015	Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : moin, moin1.3 vulnerabilities (USN-423-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2007-0901

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

high

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medium