vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5067-1 (CVE-2021-3621): SSSD vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 17, 2021
Added
Sep 9, 2021
Modified
Mar 22, 2023

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

ubuntu-upgrade-sssd
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