CVE-2026-104048
A flaw was found in SSSD. In trust-enabled identity management environments, SSSD evaluates Host-Based Access Control (HBAC) rules by stripping domain qualifiers and comparing only short usernames. An authenticated user in a trusted domain who shares the same username as an authorized local account can bypass access policies and gain unauthorized access to protected services or hosts.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 8.1 High
- Status
- Analyzed - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2026-10-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-09
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1025
Affected products
- Sssd (Fedoraproject)
- Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
- Openshift (Redhat)
- Openshift Container Platform (Redhat)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-104048
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2478613