CVE-2008-5417: HP Decnet Plus For Openvms

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HP DECnet-Plus 8.3 before ECO03 for OpenVMS on the Alpha platform uses world-writable permissions for the OSIT$NAMES logical name table, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and modify this table via the (1) SYS$CRELNM and (2) SYS$DELLNM system services.

Affected products

• HP Decnet Plus For Openvms: version 8.3 only

Published 2008-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.