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CVE-2009-5023

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.7 Published: 2014-06-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Fail2Ban Fail2Ban

Weakness Type

CWE-59

References