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CVE-2021-3621

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CVE-2021-3621

Published: Dec 23, 2021

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

sssd

affected
sssd 2.6.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

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