CVE-2009-5023
N/A
Published: June 10, 2014 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:14 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFAIL2BAN
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (4)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLogQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59
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