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CVE-2008-4313

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-11-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0

References

• http://osvdb.org/50277
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32862
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1001.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32460
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021283
• https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tog-pegasus-2.7.0-7.fc9
• https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tog-pegasus-2.7.1-3.fc10
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459217
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46829
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9556
• http://osvdb.org/50277
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32862

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