Published: 23/12/2021 Updated: 04/03/2024

CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8

VMScore: 828

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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 malicious user 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.

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Debian Bug report logs - #992710 sssd: CVE-2021-3621: shell command injection in sssctl Package: src:sssd; Maintainer for src:sssd is Debian SSSD Team <pkg-sssd-devel@alioth-listsdebiannet>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 15:54:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security, ups ...

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, in ...

A security issue 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 ...

CWE-78 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://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992710 https://nvd.nist.gov https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2021-1715.html

CVE-2021-3621

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