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Vulnerability details: VCID-u9dm-y7hk-ebfb
Vulnerability ID VCID-u9dm-y7hk-ebfb
Aliases CVE-2008-6549
GHSA-wjjc-m3fc-fcm8
PYSEC-2009-12
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/35ff7a9b1546
http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
http://osvdb.org/48876
https://github.com/moinwiki/moin
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/moin/PYSEC-2009-12.yaml
https://web.archive.org/web/20080410051007/http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
https://web.archive.org/web/20211206185024/http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/35ff7a9b1546
CVE-2008-6549 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6549
GHSA-wjjc-m3fc-fcm8 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wjjc-m3fc-fcm8
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:03:07.975282+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/moin/PYSEC-2009-12.yaml 38.6.0