CVE-2008-0782

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in MoinMoin 1.5.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the MOIN_ID user ID in a cookie for a userform action. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged for PHP code execution via the quicklinks parameter.

Affected products

Moinmoin: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 (+20)

References

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/e69a16b6e630
http://secunia.com/advisories/29010
http://secunia.com/advisories/29262
http://secunia.com/advisories/29444
http://secunia.com/advisories/33755
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-January/001890.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1514
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-27.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27404
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0569/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39837
https://usn.ubuntu.com/716-1/

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