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Fencer Vulns
low 2.1

CVE-2008-0889 json

Red Hat Directory Server 8.0, when running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, uses insecure permissions for the redhat-idm-console script, which…

published 2008-03-20 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-0896

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 35%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Red Hat Directory Server 8.0, when running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, uses insecure permissions for the redhat-idm-console script, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the script.

Patch / fix

  • redhat-idm-console directory server 8 1.0.0-17.el5idm

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0191

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-2008-0889 updated cvss 7.2

server: insecure permissions on fedora/redhat-idm-console

  • Red Hat Directory Server 8 (for RHEL 5 Server) redhat-idm-console 1.0.0-17.el5idm
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0191
  • Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 (for AS v. 4) redhat-idm-console 1.0.0-22.el4idm Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 (for ES v. 4) redhat-idm-console 1.0.0-22.el4idm
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

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

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.