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AJ.
Asked: 2012-01-26 04:25:37 +0800 CST

Fail2Ban SASL Filter Misses Failed Logins

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I am using fail2ban on my mail server. I discovered this morning that there were some 5000 failed login attempts (in the course of 1 hour) via SMTP that didn't get picked up by my sasl filter. Here is an example of an entry in /var/log/mail.log

Jan 25 04:39:56 ***** postfix/smtpd[23828]: warning: 114-32-231-17.HINET-IP.hinet.net[114.32.231.17]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure

Here's my (unmodified) sasl filter definition for fail2ban:

# Fail2Ban configuration file
#
# Author: Yaroslav Halchenko
#
# $Revision: 728 $
#

[Definition]

# Option: failregex
# Notes.: regex to match the password failures messages in the logfile. The
#          host must be matched by a group named "host". The tag "<HOST>" can
#          be used for standard IP/hostname matching and is only an alias for
#          (?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host>[\w\-.^_]+)
# Values: TEXT
#
failregex = (?i): warning: [-._\w]+\[<HOST>\]: SASL (?:LOGIN|PLAIN|(?:CRAM|DIGEST)-MD5) authentication failed(: [A-Za-z0-9+/]*={0,2})?$

# Option:  ignoreregex
# Notes.:  regex to ignore. If this regex matches, the line is ignored.
# Values:  TEXT
#
ignoreregex =

Can anyone recommend an improvement to the regex that would have also caught this record?

regex fail2ban sasl

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Define another failregex

    (?i): warning: [-._\w]+\[<HOST>\]: SASL (?:LOGIN|PLAIN|(?:CRAM|DIGEST)-MD5) authentication failed(:.*)$

    I tested this regex with fail2ban-regex and is working.

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