| Name | CVE-2021-32749 |
| Description | 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 "foreign" 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| fail2ban (PTS) | buster | 0.10.2-2.1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 0.11.2-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.0.2-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.0.2-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| fail2ban | source | (unstable) | 0.11.2-2 | | | |
Notes
[buster] - fail2ban <no-dsa> (Minor issue, can be fixed in point release)
[stretch] - fail2ban <no-dsa> (Minor issue, can be fixed after fix of regression)
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/security/advisories/GHSA-m985-3f3v-cwmm
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/commit/2ed414ed09b3bb4c478abc9366a1ff22024a33c9 (0.9)
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/commit/410a6ce5c80dd981c22752da034f2529b5eee844 (0.10, 0.11, 1.0)
Fix introduces regression for installations with mail command from the bsd-mailx package:
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/3059