CVE-2008-5099: Sun Logical Domain Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sun Logical Domain Manager (aka LDoms Manager or ldm) 1.0 through 1.0.3 displays the value of the OpenBoot PROM (OBP) security-password variable in cleartext, which allows local users to bypass the SPARC firmware's password protection, and gain privileges or obtain data access, via the "ldm ls -l" command, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4992.

Affected products

• Sun Logical Domain Manager: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only

Published 2008-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.