CVE-2009-5023

Published June 10th, 2014

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

4.7

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

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.

fail2ban/fail2ban

Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

GitHub

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