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medium 6.0

CVE-2008-4313 json

A certain Red Hat patch for tog-pegasus in OpenGroup Pegasus 2.7.0 does not properly configure the PAM tty name, which allows remote authen…

published 2008-11-27 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-4294

cvss
6.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A certain Red Hat patch for tog-pegasus in OpenGroup Pegasus 2.7.0 does not properly configure the PAM tty name, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and send requests to OpenPegasus WBEM services.

Patch / fix

  • tog-pegasus RHEL 5 2:2.7.0-2.el5_2.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:1001

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-4313 updated

tog-pegasus: WBEM services access not restricted to dedicated user after 2.7.0 rebase

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) tog-pegasus 2.7.0-2.el5_2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) tog-pegasus 2.7.0-2.el5_2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:1001

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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