FKIE_CVE-2021-3621

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-12-23 21:15 - Updated: 2025-11-03 21:15
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975142Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00028.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00008.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sssd.io/release-notes/sssd-2.6.0.htmlRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fedoraproject sssd 2.6.0
redhat virtualization 4.0
redhat virtualization_host 4.0
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 8.1
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 8.2
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 8.2
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 8.4
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus 8.2
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus 8.4
fedoraproject fedora 34
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