CVE-2004-0708 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

MoinMoin 1.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges by creating a user with the same name as an existing group that has higher privileges.

Published: 2004-07-21

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 1.2% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:moinmoin:moinmoin:1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:moinmoin:moinmoin:1.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:moinmoin:moinmoin:1.2.1:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-1667	MoinMoin 1.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges by creating a user with the same name as an existing group that has higher privileges.
Github GHSA	GHSA-7jrp-r6jx-32cw	MoinMoin allows administrative access

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.012.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/11807
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=948103&group_id=8482&atid=108482
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200407-09.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/6704
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10568
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16465

History

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Moinmoin Moinmoin

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-07-21T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:24:27.078Z

Reserved: 2004-07-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-0708

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-07-27T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-0708

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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