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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-12-23T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:01:07.617Z

Reserved: 2021-06-24T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-3621

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-23T21:15:08.920

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:22:00.150

Link: CVE-2021-3621

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-08-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3621 - Bugzilla