VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-0884

CVSS score6.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-04-04
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Primary references