CVE-2026-14474

Sssd: sssd: sudo ldap provider searches entire directory tree for sudorole objects by default, enabling privilege escalation

HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.57 % · percentile 47 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-07-07 09:12 UTC
Updated: 2026-10-08 20:44 UTC
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Awaiting Analysis

Description

A flaw was found in SSSD's LDAP sudo provider. When the ldap_sudo_search_base option is not explicitly configured, SSSD searches the entire LDAP directory tree for sudoRole objects. An authenticated attacker with write access to any subtree can inject a sudoRole object granting root-level sudo privileges on all SSSD-enrolled hosts.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1188 — Insecure Default Initialization of Resource

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	redhat
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-42022
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-14474

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1094 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected products

Product	Versions
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	unaffected 0:2.12.0-3.el10_2.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support	unaffected 0:2.10.2-3.el10_0.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support	unaffected 0:1.16.5-10.el7_9.18 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 0:2.9.4-5.el8_10.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 0:2.9.4-5.el8_10.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:2.4.0-9.el8_4.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On	unaffected 0:2.4.0-9.el8_4.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:2.6.2-4.el8_6.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On	unaffected 0:2.6.2-4.el8_6.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service	unaffected 0:2.8.2-4.el8_8.4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 0:2.8.2-4.el8_8.4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected 0:2.9.8-4.el9_8.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected 0:2.9.8-4.el9_8.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 0:2.8.2-5.el9_2.7 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 0:2.9.4-6.el9_4.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support	unaffected 0:2.9.6-4.el9_6.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12	unaffected 412.86.202608241157-0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13	unaffected 413.92.202608111330-0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14	unaffected 414.92.202608172040-0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15	unaffected 415.92.202608180329-0 < *

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD