high8.8
CVE-2021-3621
A flaw was found in SSSD, where the sssctl command was vulnerable to shell command injection via the logs-fetch and cache-expire subcommands.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Fedoraproject | Sssd | Version 2.6.0 |
| Redhat | Virtualization | Version 4.0 |
| Redhat | Virtualization Host | Version 4.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | Versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Eus | Versions 8.1, 8.2 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Server Aus | Versions 8.2, 8.4 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Server Tus | Versions 8.2, 8.4 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Version 34 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975142
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00028.html
- https://sssd.io/release-notes/sssd-2.6.0.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975142
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00028.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00008.html
- https://sssd.io/release-notes/sssd-2.6.0.html