CVE-2021-3621
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-12-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:01
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975142Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00028.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sssd.io/release-notes/sssd-2.6.0.htmlRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
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