CVE-2008-2140 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the rootpw plugin in rPath Appliance Platform Agent 2 and 3 allows remote attackers to reset the root password as the administrator via a crafted URL

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the rootpw plugin in rPath Appliance Platform Agent 2 and 3 allows remote attackers to reset the root password as the administrator via a crafted URL

Published May 12, 2008

2.6

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.41%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the rootpw plugin in rPath Appliance Platform Agent 2 and 3 allows remote attackers to reset the root password as the administrator via a crafted URL.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.41% 0.00412

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00412

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.41% (0.00412)	33.12th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.41% (0.00412)	32.66th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.11% (0.00114)	27.60th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.08% (0.00083)	37.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 22, 2024	0.08% (0.00083)	35.54th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.08% (0.00083)	33.53th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (2)

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0148
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42393
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0148		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42393		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 12, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved May 12, 2008

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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