CVE-2012-6495

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-01-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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 products

Moinmoin: through 1.9.5; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+72)

References

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/rev/7e7e1cbb9d3f
http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinRelease1.9
http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
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/2012/12/29/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/moin/+bug/1094599
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/rev/7e7e1cbb9d3f
http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinRelease1.9
http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes

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