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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3621: Important: sssd security update (ALSA-2021-3151)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 23, 2021
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

alma-upgrade-libsss_nss_idmap-devel
Title
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