CVE-2021-3621

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.

Link	Resource
https://sssd.io/release-notes/sssd-2.6.0.html	Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975142	Issue Tracking Patch

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:sssd:sssd:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization_host:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Published : 2021-12-23 09:15

Updated : 2022-10-24 04:38

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NVD link : CVE-2021-3621

Mitre link : CVE-2021-3621

Redhat

Virtualization Host

CWE-78