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CVE-2009-5023

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.

  • Published: Jun 10, 2014
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2009-5023
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.7
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

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