[ moin-Bugs-948103 ] SECURITY: possible way to defeat ACLs

Bugs item #948103, was opened at 2004-05-05 02:25
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Michael Castleman (mlc)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: SECURITY: possible way to defeat ACLs

Initial Comment:
Suppose that you have a group called AdminGroup with
special privileges. An attacker can then create a
*user* called AdminGroup and gain those privileges.

The work around is for the site admin to create an
account called AdminGroup and forget the password, but
a better solution would be for MoinMoin to forbid
creation of accounts which mach the page_group_regex. I
can read Python but not write it, otherwise I'd fix
this bug myself. Shouldn't be too hard, though.

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>Comment By: Thomas Waldmann (thomaswaldmann)
Date: 2004-05-06 21:47

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Fixed in arch branch moin--main--1.2.

Will also be in 1.2.2, when it is released.

Thanks for reporting!


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