Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 23, 2021· Updated Nov 3, 2025
CVE-2021-3621
CVE-2021-3621
Description
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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Affected products
26- SSSD/SSSDdescription
- osv-coords24 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/libsss_nss_idmap-develpkg:rpm/opensuse/sssd&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/sssd&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/sssd&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209pkg:rpm/suse/sssd&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 2.4.0-9.el8_4.2+ 23 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.0-9.el8_4.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-23.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.5.2-150400.4.5.14
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.3-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-8.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-8.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-8.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-8.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-8.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-17.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-23.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.5.2-150400.4.5.14
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-4.40.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-7.22.4
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-8.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-8.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-8.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-4.40.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-7.22.4
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-8.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-8.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-7.22.4
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-4.40.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.1-4.40.1
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