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CVE-2026-68742VulnerabilityPublished Updated

SUSE · Security update for sssd

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-68742· Medium 5.5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.5 Medium.

Data as of 10 Nov 2026, 20:06 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
5.5Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (redhat)CVSS 3.15.5
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 3 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 10 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–

Description

This update for sssd fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2026-68742: insufficient validation in the NSS responder can lead to an out-of-bounds read and a process crash when a crafted GETHOSTBYADDR request is sent to the NSS responder socket (bsc#1273922). - CVE-2026-68743: insufficient validation in the PAM responder can lead to an out-of-bounds read and a process crash when a crafted protocol v1 request is processed (bsc#1273925). - CVE-2026-68744: improper memory management in the NSS responder can lead to uninitialized heap memory disclosure from the `sssd_nss` process (bsc#1273924). Other updates and bugfixes: - Add `systemd-tmpfiles` configuration file to populate `/var/lib/sss` with the correct permissions on transactional servers (bsc#1274748).

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