MoinMoin before 20070507 does not properly enforce ACLs for calendars and includes, which allows remote attackers to read certain pages via unspecified vectors.

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

  - MoinMoin before 20070507 does not properly enforce ACLs for calendars and includes, which allows remote
    attackers to read certain pages via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2007-2637)

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in MoinMoin, a Python clone of WikiWiki. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2007-2423     A cross-site-scripting vulnerability has been discovered     in attachment handling.

  - CVE-2007-2637     Access control lists for calendars and includes were     insufficiently enforced, which could lead to information     disclosure.

  - CVE-2008-0780     A cross-site-scripting vulnerability has been discovered     in the login code.

  - CVE-2008-0781     A cross-site-scripting vulnerability has been discovered     in attachment handling.

  - CVE-2008-0782     A directory traversal vulnerability in cookie handling     could lead to local denial of service by overwriting     files.

  - CVE-2008-1098     Cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities have been     discovered in the GUI editor formatter and the code to     delete pages.

  - CVE-2008-1099     The macro code validates access control lists     insufficiently, which could lead to information     disclosure.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
434229	SCA: security update for moin (GHSA-cmg7-xr2j-4r9v)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
434229	SCA: security update for moin (GHSA-cmg7-xr2j-4r9v)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
31425	Debian DSA-1514-1 : moin - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	medium
28056	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : moin vulnerabilities (USN-458-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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CVE-2007-2637

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Tenable Plugins

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