A flaw was found in SSSD. A local user can cause a denial of service (DoS) by disrupting system authentication services. When handling Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSSAPI) authentication in the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) responder, cached connection state is freed upon completion without clearing the reference pointer. An attacker can exploit this by sending an additional request over the same connection, causing the service to access invalid memory and unexpectedly terminate.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 affected —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 unknown —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 affected —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 affected —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 affected —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 affected —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 affected —

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Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:30:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in SSSD. A local user can cause a denial of service (DoS) by disrupting system authentication services. When handling Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSSAPI) authentication in the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) responder, cached connection state is freed upon completion without clearing the reference pointer. An attacker can exploit this by sending an additional request over the same connection, causing the service to access invalid memory and unexpectedly terminate.
Title Sssd: sssd: denial of service via stale connection state reuse in pam gssapi responder
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
Weaknesses CWE-825
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-06T01:00:41.199Z

Reserved: 2026-10-01T17:23:22.525Z

Link: CVE-2026-104039

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-06T02:17:03.013

Modified: 2026-10-06T02:17:03.013

Link: CVE-2026-104039

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Updated: 2026-10-06T02:30:18Z

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