High severity · published Dec 26, 2019
CVE-2012-3462
A flaw was found in SSSD version 1.9.0
8.8
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in SSSD version 1.9.0. The SSSD's access-provider logic causes the result of the HBAC rule processing to be ignored in the event that the access-provider is also handling the setup of the user's SELinux user context.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.6% · higher than 76% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SS
Sssd · Fedoraproject
1.9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3462
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3462
Broken Link
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3462
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-3462
Exploit
https://pagure.io/SSSD/sssd/issue/1470
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