CVE-2009-5023

MediumCVSS 4.7/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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 4.7/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jun 10, 2014
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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