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
4.7
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.34%
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 products
No data.
- ≤ 0.8.4
- 0.1.0
- 0.1.1
- 0.1.2
- 0.3.0
- 0.3.1
- 0.4.0
- 0.4.1
- 0.5.0
- 0.5.1
- 0.5.2
- 0.5.3
- 0.5.4
- 0.5.5
- 0.6.0
- 0.6.1
- 0.7.0
- 0.7.1
- 0.7.2
- 0.7.3
- 0.7.4
- 0.7.5
- 0.7.6
- 0.7.7
- 0.7.8
- 0.7.9
- 0.8.0
- 0.8.1
- 0.8.2
- 0.8.3
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (9 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.34% (0.00340) | 25.15th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.34% (0.00340) | 25.66th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.14% (0.00135) | 30.71th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.63th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 32.28th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Sep 10, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 30.63th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 28.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 13.46th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (4)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58841 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog x_refsource_CONFIRM
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://secunia.com/advisories/58841 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO | |
| https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Change history (0)
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