CVE-2018-16838: Fedoraproject Sssd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in sssd Group Policy Objects implementation. When the GPO is not readable by SSSD due to a too strict permission settings on the server side, SSSD will allow all authenticated users to login instead of denying access.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Sssd: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only

Published 2019-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.