VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-7177

medium
Published 2014-02-01 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

config/filter.d/cyrus-imap.conf in the cyrus-imap filter in Fail2ban before 0.8.11 allows remote attackers to trigger the blocking of an arbitrary IP address via a crafted e-mail address that matches an improperly designed regular expression.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.8.11-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.8.11-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.8.11-1
debian debiansidfixed0.8.11-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.8.11-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
fail2banfail2ban{"endIncluding":"0.8.10"}
fail2banfail2ban0.1.0
fail2banfail2ban0.1.1
fail2banfail2ban0.1.2
fail2banfail2ban0.3.0
fail2banfail2ban0.3.1
fail2banfail2ban0.4.0
fail2banfail2ban0.4.1
fail2banfail2ban0.5.0
fail2banfail2ban0.5.1
fail2banfail2ban0.5.2
fail2banfail2ban0.5.3
fail2banfail2ban0.5.4
fail2banfail2ban0.5.5
fail2banfail2ban0.6.0
fail2banfail2ban0.6.1
fail2banfail2ban0.7.0
fail2banfail2ban0.7.1
fail2banfail2ban0.7.2
fail2banfail2ban0.7.3
fail2banfail2ban0.7.4
fail2banfail2ban0.7.5
fail2banfail2ban0.7.6
fail2banfail2ban0.7.7
fail2banfail2ban0.7.8
fail2banfail2ban0.7.9
fail2banfail2ban0.8.0
fail2banfail2ban0.8.1
fail2banfail2ban0.8.2
fail2banfail2ban0.8.3
fail2banfail2ban0.8.4
fail2banfail2ban0.8.5
fail2banfail2ban0.8.6
fail2banfail2ban0.8.7
fail2banfail2ban0.8.7.1
fail2banfail2ban0.8.8
fail2banfail2ban0.8.9

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.