CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-2359

7.2 HIGH Published 2008-06-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-06-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-16

Description

The default configuration of consolehelper in system-config-network before 1.5.10-1 on Fedora 8 lacks the USER=root directive, which allows local users of the workstation console to gain privileges and change the network configuration.

Affected configurations

• fedora 8 consolehelper 1.4.4 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.4.5 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.4.6 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.4.7 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.0 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.1 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.2 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.3 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.4 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.5 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.6 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.7 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.8 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.9 • fedora 8 consolehelper 1.5.10 • redhat fedora 8 1.4.4 • redhat fedora 8 1.4.5 • redhat fedora 8 1.4.6 • redhat fedora 8 1.4.7 • redhat fedora 8 1.5. • redhat fedora 8 1.5.0 • redhat fedora 8 1.5.1 • redhat fedora 8 1.5.2 • redhat fedora 8 1.5.3 • redhat fedora 8 1.5.4 • redhat fedora 8 1.5.5 • redhat fedora 8 1.5.6 • redhat fedora 8 1.5.7 • redhat fedora 8 1.5.8 • redhat fedora 8 1.5.9 • redhat fedora 8 1.5.10

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

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