CVE-2008-4313: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 5.0 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 5.0 only

Published 2008-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.