Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5617

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-17 02:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:56:47
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.