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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2758-1 sssd security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3436-1 sssd security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4047-1 sssd security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5067-1 SSSD vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-23T21:15:08.920

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:22:00.150

Link: CVE-2021-3621

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-08-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3621 - Bugzilla

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