{"id":"CVE-2009-5023","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.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:41:03.895730Z","published":"2014-06-10T14:55:08Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2024:10347-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/58841"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-03.xml"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544232"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/sdist/0.8.5/ChangeLog"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}