CVE-2026-104038
MEDIUM
5,9
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: high
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high
Description
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A flaw was found in sssd. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by submitting a certificate that lacks an expected Security Identifier (SID) extension. In deployments configured with SID-based certificate mapping rules, the service fails to verify the presence of the extension before processing it, causing the process to crash during authentication or lookup operations.
476
NULL Pointer Dereference
StableCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Integrity
Confidentiality
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart
Execute Unauthorized Code Or Commands
Read Memory
Modify Memory
Applicable Platforms
Languages:
C, C++, Java, C#, Go
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-104038
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2478980