CVE-2012-6080

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-01-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the _do_attachment_move function in the AttachFile action (action/AttachFile.py) in MoinMoin 1.9.3 through 1.9.5 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a file name.

Affected products

Moinmoin: 1.9.3, 1.9.4, 1.9.5

References

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/rev/3c27131a3c52
http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
http://secunia.com/advisories/51663
http://secunia.com/advisories/51676
http://secunia.com/advisories/51696
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1680-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2593
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57076
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/moin/+bug/1094599
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/rev/3c27131a3c52
http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes

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