National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4315
Original release date:11/27/2008
Last revised:12/03/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472017
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tog-pegasus-2.7.1-3.fc10
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tog-pegasus-2.7.0-7.fc9
External Source: XF
Name: togpegasus-systemlog-weak-security(46830)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021281
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:1001
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32862
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 50278
