CVE-2021-41617: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sshd in OpenSSH 6.2 through 8.x before 8.8, when certain non-default configurations are used, allows privilege escalation because supplemental groups are not initialized as expected. Helper programs for AuthorizedKeysCommand and AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand may run with privileges associated with group memberships of the sshd process, if the configuration specifies running the command as a different user.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 33 only; version 34 only; version 35 only
• Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Aff 500f Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Aff a250 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Clustered Data Ontap: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified
• OpenBSD OpenSSH: from 6.2, before 8.8 (fixed in 8.8)
• Oracle HTTP Server: version 12.2.1.2.0 only; version 12.2.1.3.0 only; version 12.2.1.4.0 only
• Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Kit: version 8.8 only
• Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San: version v8r13 only

Published 2021-09-26. Last modified 2026-10-08.