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CVE-2021-3621
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-12-23T21:15:08.920 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:05:27.413

Summary

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

fedoraproject — sssd

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References

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