A flaw was found in the integration of Active Directory and the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) on Linux systems.
CVE-2025-11561
A flaw was found in the integration of Active Directory and the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) on Linux systems. In default configurations, the Kerberos local authentication plugin (sssdkrb5localauthplugin) is enabled, but a fallback to the an2ln plugin is possible. This fallback allows an attacker with permission to modify certain AD attributes (such as userPrincipalName or samAccountName) to impersonate privileged users, potentially resulting in unauthorized access or privilege escalation on domain-joined Linux hosts.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.8 (v3.1)
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 0.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 9 October 2025
- Last updated
- 4 November 2026
- Affected
- Red Hat · Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 · Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support
- Assigner
- redhat
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
At the source
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19610
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19847
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19848
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19849
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19850
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19851
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19852
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19853
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19854
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19859
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20954
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21020
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