DEBIAN-CVE-2009-5023

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2009-5023

    Published: 10 Jun 2014Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2009-5023

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-5023

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: fail2ban

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/fail2ban?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.8.4+svn20110323-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High