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 2.0 4.7/10
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:NWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
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
Timeline
- Published
- Jun 10, 2014
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified