CVE-2012-6495

Moinmoin vulnerability

CVSS

6.0

EPSS

18.6%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (1) twikidraw (action/twikidraw.py) and (2) anywikidraw (action/anywikidraw.py) actions in MoinMoin before 1.9.6 allow remote authenticated users with write permissions to overwrite arbitrary files via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this can be leveraged with CVE-2012-6081 to execute arbitrary code.

Affected vendor

Moinmo

Affected product

Moinmoin

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2013-01-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 18.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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