CVE-2017-12173 Information

Description

It was found that sssd’s sysdb_search_user_by_upn_res() function before 1.16.0 did not sanitize requests when querying its local cache and was vulnerable to injection. In a centralized login environment if a password hash was locally cached for a given user an authenticated attacker could use this flaw to retrieve it.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3379 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1877 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12173

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8