Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for moin (GHSA-wjjc-m3fc-fcm8)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434989

Description

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

 - The password_checker function in config/multiconfig.py in MoinMoin 1.6.1 uses the cracklib and python-
 crack features even though they are not thread-safe, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
 service (segmentation fault and crash) via unknown vectors. (CVE-2008-6549)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wjjc-m3fc-fcm8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434989

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-6549

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-6549

BID: 34406

cwe: CWE-400