cve-2008-5617
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-12-17 02:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:56
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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