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CVE-2019-3811

Published: Jan 15, 2019

Modified: Feb 13, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

4.1

MEDIUM

Description

A vulnerability was found in sssd. If a user was configured with no home directory set, sssd would return '/' (the root directory) instead of '' (the empty string / no home directory). This could impact services that restrict the user's filesystem access to within their home directory through chroot() etc. All versions before 2.1 are vulnerable.

VendorProductVersions

The sssd Project

sssd

affected
2.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-552
CWE-200

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Adjacent

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

106644
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
openSUSE-SU-2019:0344
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
openSUSE-SU-2019:1174
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
RHSA-2019:2177
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT

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