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medium 4.3

CVE-2012-6495 json

MoinMoin Multiple vulnerable to directory traversal

published 2013-01-03 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-6gx4-29v9-g9q5 , PYSEC-2013-7 , EUVD-2013-0021

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
18.6%
EPSS 18.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi moin 1.9.6

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-2012-6495 updated cvss 3.3

moin: Multiple directory traversal flaws in twikidraw and anywikidraw

  • 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. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-25304)

Exploit prediction

18.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-26422 MoinMoin - twikidraw Action Traversal Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit) remote, 2013-06-24
  • EDB-25304 MoinMoin - Arbitrary Command Execution webapps, 2013-05-08
  • hg.moinmo.in http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/rev/7e7e1cbb9d3f referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi moin
<1.9.6
1.9.6

Classification

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

References

Sources

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