CVE-2009-5023

Published Jun 10, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 4.7 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-4981 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 7:24 AM
Reserved
Dec 9, 2010, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 10, 2014, 2:55 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:14 PM