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CVE-2008-4313

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4313 describes a vulnerability in a Red Hat patch for tog-pegasus in OpenGroup Pegasus 2.7.0, affecting various Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenPegasus products. The flaw stems from improper PAM tty name configuration, enabling remote authenticated users to bypass access restrictions and interact with OpenPegasus WBEM services. With a CVSS score of 6.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring network access and authentication, but potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:server:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:5.0:*:client:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 1,424 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: tog-pegasus-2:2.7.0-2.el5_2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4313Important

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

Aug 14, 2008

References

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