ALT-PU-2021-3471-1
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2021-12-24
Modified: 2024-11-21
Modified: 2024-11-21
CVE-2021-3621
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.
Severity: HIGH (8.8)
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References:
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975142
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975142
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230529 [SECURITY] [DLA 3436-1] sssd security update
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230529 [SECURITY] [DLA 3436-1] sssd security update
- https://sssd.io/release-notes/sssd-2.6.0.html
- https://sssd.io/release-notes/sssd-2.6.0.html