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CVE-2026-104038: Sssd: sssd: denial of service via missing sid extension in certificate mapping

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-06 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

A flaw was found in sssd. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by submitting a certificate that lacks an expected Security Identifier (SID) extension. In deployments configured with SID-based certificate mapping rules, the service fails to verify the presence of the extension before processing it, causing the process to crash during authentication or lookup operations.

Affected products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: all versions

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-104038
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2478980
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2478980

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