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CVE-2013-7176

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-7176 describes a vulnerability in Fail2ban versions prior to 0.8.11, specifically within the postfix filter's config/filter.d/postfix.conf. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger the blocking of an arbitrary IP address by sending a specially crafted email address that exploits an improperly designed regular expression. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, but only resulting in partial availability impact (denial of service). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.8.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fail2ban:fail2ban:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0323 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00021.html
github.com / fail2ban/fail2ban/commit/eb2f0c927257120dfc32d2450fd63f1962f38821
ExploitPatch
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2979
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/686662
US Government Resource