{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:28Z",
  "published": "2014-06-10T14:55:08Z",
  "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.",
  "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"
    }
  ]
}