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CVE-2026-68743: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Out-of-bounds Read

Affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.5 Medium.

Data as of 1 Nov 2026, 22:58 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
5.5Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 2% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 4 Aug 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 1 Nov 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10sssdAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6sssdAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7sssdAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8sssdAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9sssdAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8Affected–Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Currently, no mitigation or patch is available that meets Red Hat's criteria for ease of use, deployment, applicability, or stability. The vulnerability can only be triggered by a local attacker with access to the PAM responder socket using protocol v1 requests, which are not used by the default PAM client. Users should monitor Red Hat's advisory page for updates on fixes or mitigations. Until a fix is released, limiting local access to the PAM responder socket may reduce risk.

Description

A flaw was found in SSSD. The extract_authtok_v1() function in the PAM responder does not validate the auth_token_length field against the remaining buffer size before processing. A local attacker can exploit this via a crafted protocol v1 request to the PAM responder socket, causing an out-of-bounds read and process crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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