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

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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
08/17/2021
Created
09/20/2021
Added
09/09/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-sssd

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