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CVE-2019-3811

Publication date 15 January 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.2 · Medium

Score breakdown

A vulnerability was found in sssd. If a user was configured with no home directory set, sssd would return '/' (the root directory) instead of '' (the empty string / no home directory). This could impact services that restrict the user's filesystem access to within their home directory through chroot() etc. All versions before 2.1 are vulnerable.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sssd 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco Ignored
18.10 cosmic Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.16.1-1ubuntu1.8
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
sssd

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.2 · Medium
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-5067-1
    • SSSD vulnerabilities
    • 8 September 2021

Other references