CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-6549

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2009-03-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-03-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The password_checker function in config/multiconfig.py in MoinMoin 1.6.1 uses the cracklib and python-crack features even though they are not thread-safe, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via unknown vectors.

Affected configurations

• moinmo moinmoin 1.6.1

References