Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
CVE-2008-0884
The Replace function in the capp-lspp-config script in the (1) lspp-eal4-config-ibm and (2) capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages before 0.65-2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 uses lstat instead of stat to determine the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file permissions, leading to a change to world-writable permissions for the /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac file, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying this file.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (27.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 27.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0193.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/28557 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/29642 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41584 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)