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medium 4.0

CVE-2026-90994 json

Sssd: sssd: denial of service via malformed pam v1 requests

published 2026-09-14 55 d ago modified 2026-11-06 3 d ago also EUVD-2026-77588

cvss
4.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 6%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in sssd, specifically within the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) responder's protocol v1 parser, pam_parse_in_data(). A local client with access to the PAM responder's UNIX socket can exploit this by negotiating protocol v1 and sending an empty or truncated PAM request body. This can trigger an out-of-bounds read, potentially causing the PAM responder to terminate or restart, leading to a local denial of service.

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

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-90994 updated cvss 4.0

sssd: sssd: Denial of Service via malformed PAM v1 requests

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sssd, sssd-ad, sssd-ipa, sssd-dbus, sssd-krb5, sssd-ldap, +20 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “There's no available mitigation for this issue.”
  • 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 “There's no available mitigation for this issue.”

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
55 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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

References

Sources

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