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CVE-2008-5617

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
17/12/2008
Last modified:
08/08/2017

Description

The ACL handling in rsyslog 3.12.1 to 3.20.0, 4.1.0, and 4.1.1 does not follow $AllowedSender directive, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and spoof log messages or create a large number of spurious messages.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
8.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.12.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.15.1:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.17.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.17.4:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.17.5:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.19.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rsyslog:rsyslog:3.19.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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