CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5642

7.5 HIGH Published 2012-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

server/action.py in Fail2ban before 0.8.8 does not properly handle the content of the matches tag, which might allow remote attackers to trigger unsafe behavior in a custom action file via unspecified symbols in this content.

Affected configurations

• fail2ban fail2ban (<= 0.8.7.1) • 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 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.8.4 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.8.5 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.8.6 • fail2ban fail2ban 0.8.7

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