CVE-2013-2178
fail2ban - denial of service
EPSS 0.83%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2013-2178
To remediate CVE-2013-2178, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/fail2ban—upgrade to 0.8.10-1 or later
- Debian/fail2ban—upgrade to 0.8.4-3+squeeze2 or later
Is CVE-2013-2178 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.8.10-1
- from 0, < 0.8.4-3+squeeze2