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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2008-0782 json

MoinMoin Directory traversal vulnerability

published 2008-02-14 18 y ago modified 2026-07-06 4 mo ago also GHSA-6766-r2rx-mfw9 , PYSEC-2026-668 , EUVD-2022-2737

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.9%
EPSS 14.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-0782 updated

moin: file overwrite via crafted cookie

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-4957)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

14.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-4957 MoinMoin 1.5.x - 'MOIND_ID' Cookie Login Bypass webapps, 2008-01-21

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi moin
<=1.5.8
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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