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Gentoo: GLSA-200408-25 Normal: MoinMoin Group ACL Bypass

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Calendar Grey August 26, 2004
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MoinMoin vulnerability permits unauthorized users to circumvent security measures, creating potential risks. Users are recommended to update immediately.
MoinMoin contains a bug allowing anonymous users to bypass ACLs (Access Control Lists) and carry out operations that should be limited to authorized users

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200408-25 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: MoinMoin: Group ACL bypass Date: August 26, 2004 Bugs: #57913 ID: 200408-25

Synopsis ======= MoinMoin contains a bug allowing anonymous users to bypass ACLs (Access Control Lists) and carry out operations that should be limited to authorized users.
Background ========= MoinMoin is a Python clone of WikiWiki, based on PikiPiki.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-www/moinmoin <= 1.2.2 >= 1.2.3
========== MoinMoin contains two unspecified bugs, one allowing anonymous userselevated access when not using ACLs, and the other in the ACL hand...

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