OpenPegasus Does Not Log Failed Authentication Attempts
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1021281
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1021281
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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4315
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Nov 25 2008
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Impact: Modification of system information
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in OpenPegasus. A remote user can conduct password guessing attacks without detection.
The OpenPegasus WBEM service does not log failed authentication attempts to the system log file via the Pluggable Authentication Modules mechanism.
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Impact: A remote user can conduct password guessing attacks without detection.
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Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.
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Vendor URL: www.openpegasus.org/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Authentication error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:52:33 -0500
Subject: OpenPegasus
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CVE-2008-4315
Red Hat:
A security flaw was found in the OpenPegasus WBEM service, shipped as
tog-pegasus package within the Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It was discovered,
the OpenPegasus service did not log failed authentication attempts to
the system log file via the traditional Pluggable Authentication Modules
mechanism. An attacker could use this flaw to discover the password
of the root account used for the authentication against the CIM server.
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