Sssd
CVE-2018-10852
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could access sensitive data that should not be disclosed by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
The UNIX pipe which sudo uses to contact SSSD and read the available sudo rules from SSSD has too wide permissions, which means that anyone who can send a message using the same raw protocol that. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Minimize information in error messages, implement proper access controls, encrypt sensitive data at rest and in transit.
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This vulnerability is classified as Exposure of Sensitive Information (CWE-200), which allows attackers to access sensitive data that should not be disclosed. The UNIX pipe which sudo uses to contact SSSD and read the available sudo rules from SSSD has too wide permissions, which means that anyone who can send a message using the same raw protocol that sudo and SSSD use can read the sudo rules available for any user. This affects versions of SSSD before 1.16.3. Affected products include: Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Sssd, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation. Version information: before 1.16.3..
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
The UNIX pipe which sudo uses to contact SSSD and read the available sudo rules from SSSD has too wide permissions, which means that anyone who can send a message using the same raw protocol that sudo and SSSD use can read the sudo rules available for any user. This affects versions of SSSD before 1.16.3.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
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
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
sssd versions from 1.13.0 to before 2.0.0 did not properly restrict access to the infopipe according to the "allowed_uid
GitHub PoC
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