CVE-2009-5023

CVSS V2 Medium 4.7 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2009-5023
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2014-06-10T14:55:08
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2014-06-24T14:51:10
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-59 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/59.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 0.8.4
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.7.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.7
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.4
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232
http://secunia.com/advisories/58841
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-5023
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-5023
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 10:33:26 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-01 23:26:40 2014-06-10T14:55Z 2014-06-10T14:55:08 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-01 23:26:40 2014-06-24T14:51:10 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-01 23:26:40 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated