CVE-2013-2178 (GCVE-0-2013-2178)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-08-28 17:18 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:27
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Summary
The apache-auth.conf, apache-nohome.conf, apache-noscript.conf, and apache-overflows.conf files in Fail2ban before 0.8.10 do not properly validate log messages, which allows remote attackers to block arbitrary IP addresses via certain messages in a request.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2013-06-08 00:00
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