CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-5023

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2014-06-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-06-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

The (1) dshield.conf, (2) mail-buffered.conf, (3) mynetwatchman.conf, and (4) mynetwatchman.conf actions in action.d/ in Fail2ban before 0.8.5 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names, as demonstrated by /tmp/fail2ban-mail.txt.

Affected configurations

• fail2ban fail2ban (<= 0.8.4) • fail2ban fail2ban 0.1.0 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.1.1 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.1.2 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.3.0 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.3.1 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.4.0 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.4.1 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.5.0 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.5.1 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.5.2 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.5.3 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.5.4 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.5.5 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.6.0 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.6.1 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.7.0 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.7.1 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.7.2 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.7.3 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.7.4 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.7.5 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.7.6 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.7.7 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.7.8 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.7.9 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.8.0 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.8.1 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.8.2 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.8.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References