Name: CVE-2009-5023: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2014-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2009-5023, CWE-59, CVSS 5.5, EPSS 0.00048

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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.5

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade fail2ban	Jul 30, 2024	Jun 10, 2014
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade net-analyzer/fail2ban.	Oct 30, 2017	Jun 10, 2014
Suse	—	Upgrade fail2ban	Dec 12, 2013	Dec 10, 2013

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CVSS Details

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