CVE-2018-16838

A flaw was found in sssd Group Policy Objects implementation. When the GPO is not readable by SSSD due to a too strict permission settings on the server side, SSSD will allow all authenticated users to login instead of denying access.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.4 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-03-25

Last modified

2025-02-13

Weaknesses

CWE-269, CWE-284

Affected products

• Sssd (Fedoraproject)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
• Sssd (Unknown)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00042.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00051.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2177
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2437
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3651
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16838
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00028.html