VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2009-5023
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,…
MEDIUM 4.7EPSS 0.34%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.34%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.7 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.34% probability · 27th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- Affected
- fail2ban/fail2ban
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58841
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232
- https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58841
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232
- https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.