CVE-2026-6245: Fedoraproject Sssd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). The pam_passkey_child_read_data() function within the PAM passkey responder fails to properly handle raw bytes received from a pipe. Because the data is treated as a NUL-terminated C string without explicit termination, it results in an out-of-bounds read when processed by functions like snprintf(). A local attacker could potentially trigger this vulnerability by initiating a crafted passkey authentication request, causing the SSSD PAM responder to crash, resulting in a local Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Sssd: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 4.0 only

Published 2026-04-15. Last modified 2026-09-01.