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REDHAT-BUG-472017

First published: Tue Nov 18 2008(Updated: )

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.

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Tog-pegasus

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