CVE-2021-3621 (GCVE-0-2021-3621)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:33
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Summary
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.
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n/a sssd Affected: sssd 2.6.0
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