CVE-2008-5646: Trac vulnerable to denial of service

CVE-2008-5646 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2008-12-17

Unspecified vulnerability in Trac before 0.11.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown attack vectors related to "certain wiki markup."

Technologies: trac (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2008-5646 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2008-5646 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2008-5646?
Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3.1, published 17 December 2008.
Which products and versions are affected?
trac (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.11.2.
Is there a fix for CVE-2008-5646?
Yes. trac (PyPI): upgrade to 0.11.2 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected by CVE-2008-5646?
Check whether you run trac (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • trac (PyPI): upgrade to 0.11.2 or later
    pip install "trac>=0.11.2"

Affected products

  • trac (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.11.2

Identifiers

  • CVE-2008-5646
  • GHSA-437p-qw95-wqqr
  • PYSEC-2008-6

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