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
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.14% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 66.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-03-25 17:41Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-02-13 16:27Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-09-11
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.4)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 93c44eca1d8aeb707c21ca9c60e12fdc9b4b187f3d89858a38fdfe032235a935
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16838
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1576http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00042.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1589http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00051.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:2177https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2177
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:2437https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2437
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:3651https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3651
- lists.debian.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00028.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- sssd Fixed in 2.2.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- sssd Fixed in 2.2.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- sssd Fixed in 1.16.1-1ubuntu1.8
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- sssd No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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