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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2008-4315 json

tog-pegasus in OpenGroup Pegasus 2.7.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, Fedora 9, and Fedora 10 does not log failed authentication att…

published 2008-11-27 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-4296

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

tog-pegasus in OpenGroup Pegasus 2.7.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, Fedora 9, and Fedora 10 does not log failed authentication attempts to the OpenPegasus CIM server, which makes it easier for remote attackers to avoid detection of password guessing attacks.

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-2008-4315 updated

tog-pegasus: failed authentication attempts not logged via PAM

  • 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

2.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.