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      <title>CVE-2021-32749 — Possible RCE vulnerability in mailing action using mailutils (mail-whois)</title>
      <link>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2021-32749</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; fail2ban&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;fail2ban is a daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors. In versions 0.9.7 and prior, 0.10.0 through 0.10.6, and 0.11.0 through 0.11.2, there is a vulnerability that leads to possible remote code execution in the mailing action mail-whois. Command `mail` from mailutils package used in mail actions like `mail-whois` can execute command if unescaped sequences (`\n~`) are available in &amp;#34;foreign&amp;#34; input (for instance in whois output). To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need to insert malicious characters into the response sent by the whois server, either via a MITM attack or by taking over a whois server. The issue is patched in versions 0.10.7 and 0.11.3. As a workaround, one may avoid the usage of action `mail-whois` or patch the vulnerability manually.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; fail2ban&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;fail2ban is a daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors. In versions 0.9.7 and prior, 0.10.0 through 0.10.6, and 0.11.0 through 0.11.2, there is a vulnerability that leads to possible remote code execution in the mailing action mail-whois. Command `mail` from mailutils package used in mail actions like `mail-whois` can execute command if unescaped sequences (`\n~`) are available in &amp;#34;foreign&amp;#34; input (for instance in whois output). To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need to insert malicious characters into the response sent by the whois server, either via a MITM attack or by taking over a whois server. The issue is patched in versions 0.10.7 and 0.11.3. As a workaround, one may avoid the usage of action `mail-whois` or patch the vulnerability manually.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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      <title>USN-5232-1 — fail2ban vulnerability</title>
      <link>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/usn-5232-1</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS: fail2ban, Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS: fail2ban, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: fail2ban, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: fail2ban&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jakub Żoczek discovered that certain Fail2ban actions handled whois responses in
an insecure way. If Fail2ban was configured to use certain mail actions
like &amp;#39;mail-whois&amp;#39; on a target system, a remote attacker who was able to control whois
responses to this target system could possibly execute arbitrary code.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS: fail2ban, Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS: fail2ban, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: fail2ban, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: fail2ban&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jakub Żoczek discovered that certain Fail2ban actions handled whois responses in
an insecure way. If Fail2ban was configured to use certain mail actions
like &amp;#39;mail-whois&amp;#39; on a target system, a remote attacker who was able to control whois
responses to this target system could possibly execute arbitrary code.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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