vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-3621: Security patch for sssd ((Multiple Advisories))
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | 2021-08-17 | 2021-10-05 | 2023-04-06 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2021-08-17
Added
2021-10-05
Modified
2023-04-06
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
amazon-linux-upgrade-sssd

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