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CVE-2026-104039 json

Sssd: sssd: denial of service via stale connection state reuse in pam gssapi responder

published last mo. modified 4d ago also EUVD-2026-92909

cvss
4.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • sssd SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES 15 SP6-LTSS 2.10.2-150600.3.58.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:5079-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-104039 updated cvss 4.7

sssd: sssd: Denial of service via stale connection state reuse in PAM GSSAPI responder

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sssd, sssd-ad, sssd-ipa, sssd-dbus, sssd-krb5, sssd-ldap, +20 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sssd, sssd-ad, sssd-ipa, sssd-kcm, sssd-dbus, sssd-krb5, +25 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 sssd, sssd-ad, sssd-idp, sssd-ipa, sssd-kcm, sssd-dbus, +25 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 sssd, sssd-ad, sssd-idp, sssd-ipa, sssd-kcm, sssd-dbus, +25 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 sssd 2.13.1-2.el10 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2478956 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference

References

Sources

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