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CVE-2009-5023 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232 CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/58841 CVE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml CVE
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog CVE
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232 [email protected]

see all 8 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
fail2ban fail2ban
<= 0.8.4
0.1.0
0.1.1
0.1.2
0.3.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-5023
NVD Published Date:
Jun 10, 2014
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2009-5023 Details - Not Deferred