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CVE-2009-0362

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.0 Published: 2009-02-13 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

filter.d/wuftpd.conf in Fail2ban 0.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (forced authentication failures) via a crafted reverse-resolved DNS name (rhost) entry that contains a substring that is interpreted as an IP address, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4321.

Affected Platforms

Fail2Ban Fail2Ban

Weakness Type

CWE-287

References