CVE-2009-5023
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-5023
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2009-5023.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2009-5023
- Downstream
- Related
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:10:06Z
- Published
- 2014-06-10T14:55:08Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:10:06Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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