Sssd
CVE-2014-0249
LOW
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Permission and access control
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 3.3 (LOW). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, M complexity. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.05%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | Successful exploitation could compromise the low-severity affected system. |
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The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.11.6 does not properly identify group membership when a non-POSIX group is in a group membership chain, which allows local users to bypass access. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3). No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-264. The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.11.6 does not properly identify group membership when a non-POSIX group is in a group membership chain, which allows local users to bypass access restrictions via unspecified vectors. Affected products include: Fedoraproject Sssd, Redhat Enterprise Linux.
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AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.11.6 does not properly identify group membership when a non-POSIX group is in a group membership chain, which allows local users to bypass access restrictions via unspecified vectors.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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Attack Technique
Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker leverages flaws in access control mechanisms to gain permissions beyond what they were originally granted.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
A flaw was found in SSSD, where the sssctl command was vulnerable to shell command injection via the logs-fetch and cach
Access-control bypass in SSSD lets an already-authenticated user from a trusted identity domain reach hosts and services
The UNIX pipe which sudo uses to contact SSSD and read the available sudo rules from SSSD has too wide permissions, whic
Memory leak in the Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) responder plugin (sssd_pac_plugin.so) in System Security Servic
Access control bypass in SSSD when configured with non-default ordering that evaluates password-expiration warnings befo
Memory exhaustion in the SSSD (System Security Services Daemon) can be triggered by an unauthenticated local attacker wh
Denial of service in sssd passkey authentication handling allows any local user to crash the PAM responder by sending a
Local unprivileged users on hosts running the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) can crash or destabilize the NSS re
A local denial-of-service flaw in SSSD (System Security Services Daemon) lets an attacker who can connect to the PAM res
A local denial of service in SSSD's Name Service Switch (NSS) responder lets an attacker who can reach the responder's U
Unprivileged local users can exhaust memory in the SSSD NSS responder by repeatedly requesting lookups for nonexistent e
Denial of service in SSSD's autofs responder allows a local attacker with an existing account on the host to crash the r
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