Vulnerability CVE-2009-0362


Published: 2009-02-12   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
filter.d/wuftpd.conf in Fail2ban 0.8.3 uses an incorrect regular expression that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (forced authentication failures) via a crafted reverse-resolved DNS name (rhost) entry that contains a substring that is interpreted as an IP address, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4321.

Type:

CWE-287

(Improper Authentication)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Fail2ban -> Fail2ban 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33734
http://secunia.com/advisories/33890
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514163

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