CVE-2012-6081
Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities in the (1) twikidraw (action/twikidraw.py) and (2) anywikidraw (action/anywikidraw.py)…
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 35.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple unrestricted file upload 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 execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in an unspecified directory, as exploited in the wild in July 2012.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- MoinMoin twikidraw Action Traversal File Upload (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/unix/webapp/moinmoin_twikidrawRank manualdisclosed 30 Dec 2012
Exploit-DB2 entries
- MoinMoin - twikidraw Action Traversal Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26422remote, linuxpublished 24 Jun 2013Verified
- MoinMoin - Arbitrary Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 25304webapps, phppublished 8 May 2013Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 25304 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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By redhat
- 28 days later
· 28 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.0 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 35.1% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References13
- http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinRelease1.9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 51663 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/rev/7e7e1cbb9d3f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-2593 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/moin/+bug/1094599 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 57082 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121229 CVE request: MoinMoin Wiki (remote code execution vulnerability) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 51676 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121229 Re: CVE request: MoinMoin Wiki (remote code execution vulnerability) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 51696 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 25304 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- USN-1680-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-0020 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m2c4-jgmm-fvq3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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