TITLE:
MoinMoin Administrative Group Name Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11807

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11807/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
MoinMoin 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
Michael Castleman has discovered a vulnerability in MoinMoin, which
can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.

The problem is that a user can gain the same privileges as an
administrative group by creating a user with the same name.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.1, 1.2, and 1.2.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.2.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8482

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Michael Castleman

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=948103&group_id=8482&atid=108482

OTHER REFERENCES:
OSVDB:
http://www.osvdb.org/6704

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