Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Access Restriction access control

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Operating System). This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Access Restriction. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.11.6 does not properly identify group membership when a non-POSIX group is in a group membership chain, which allows local users to bypass access restrictions via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was presented 06/11/2014 with Red Hat (Website). The advisory is shared at lists.fedorahosted.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-0249 since 12/03/2013. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/22/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 79225 (openSUSE Security Update : sssd (openSUSE-SU-2014:1407-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 167374 (OpenSuSE Security Update for sssd (openSUSE-SU-2014:1407-1)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (94067), Tenable (79225), SecurityFocus (BID 67940†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-47091†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 79225
Nessus Name: openSUSE Security Update : sssd (openSUSE-SU-2014:1407-1)
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06/11/2014 +29 days 🔍
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Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: lists.fedorahosted.org
Organization: Red Hat
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2014-0249 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-0249
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-70013
X-Force: 94067
SecurityFocus: 67940 - SSSD CVE-2014-0249 Local Security Bypass Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 47091 - RedHat Fedora SSSD 1.11.6 Local Restrictions Bypass Vulnerability, Low

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Created: 03/26/2015 12:07 PM
Updated: 12/22/2024 06:47 AM
Changes: 03/26/2015 12:07 PM (62), 06/12/2017 08:16 AM (5), 03/22/2022 02:38 PM (3), 12/22/2024 06:47 AM (18)
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