A flaw was found in SSSD, where the sssctl command was vulnerable to shell command injection via the logs-fetch and cache-expire subcommands. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the root user into running a specially crafted sssctl command, such as via sudo, to gain root access. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
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Advisories
Source | ID | Title |
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DLA-2758-1 | sssd security update |
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DLA-3436-1 | sssd security update |
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DLA-4047-1 | sssd security update |
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USN-5067-1 | SSSD vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T17:01:07.617Z
Reserved: 2021-06-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-3621

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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-12-23T21:15:08.920
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:22:00.150
Link: CVE-2021-3621


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