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📦 Debian:10
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MEDIUM severity

CVE-2008-6548 — moin

MEDIUM

CVE-2008-6548 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) CWE-862 vulnerability in moin. A fix is available for moin — see the affected versions and patch details below.

MoinMoin improper access control on the included page for the rst parser

Also known asGHSA-jhxw-4hw4-mhh7PYSEC-2009-11
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 31, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
1.0%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs63th percentile — riskier than 63% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.50%1.00%1.50%0.2%1.0%May 26Sep 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
📦moin

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Debian:10 packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

The rst parser (parser/text_rst.py) in MoinMoin 1.6.1 does not check the ACL of an included page, which allows attackers to read unauthorized include files via unknown vectors.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦Debian:10moinall versions1.6.2-1

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
moinmoinmoinmo
1 version
1.6.1

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for moin, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update moin to 1.6.2-1 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2008-6548 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used.

Frequently Asked Questions

The rst parser (parser/text_rst.py) in MoinMoin 1.6.1 does not check the ACL of an included page, which allows attackers to read unauthorized include files via unknown vectors.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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CVE-2008-6548: moin — Fixed in 1.6.2-1