CVE-2008-6603

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-04-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

MoinMoin 1.6.2 and 1.7 does not properly enforce ACL checks when acl_hierarchic is set to True, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1937.

Affected products

Moinmoin: 1.6.2, 1.7.0

References

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/543ae9bdbe26
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/rev/88356b3f849a
http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/AclHierarchicPageAclSupercededByAclRightsAfter
http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
http://osvdb.org/48875
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34655
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1307
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41911
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/543ae9bdbe26
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/rev/88356b3f849a
http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/AclHierarchicPageAclSupercededByAclRightsAfter
http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes

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