RHEL 9 : sssd (RHSA-2026:97438)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 378205

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:97438 advisory.

The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) service provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch (NSS) and the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system to connect to multiple different account sources.

Security Fix(es):

* sssd: out-of-bounds read in the sssd (CVE-2026-6245)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* Performance impact with enumerate in SSSD > 2.7.3 [rhel-9] (JIRA:RHEL-143416)

* Poor performance of `BE_REQ_INITGROUPS` handling by 'sssd_be' (LDAP RFC2307, no nested groups) [rhel-9] (JIRA:RHEL-150439)

* [RFE] SSSD PAM: Support Microsoft AD PKINIT authentication indicator (ms-pkca) for pam_gssapi_indicators_map [rhel-9] (JIRA:RHEL-152067)

* [RHEL9.9] - GDM Support for IdM IdP feature and MFA [SSSD] (JIRA:RHEL-156519)

* SSSD Rebase for RHEL 9.9 (JIRA:RHEL-173741)

* [RHEL9.9] Man page update: man sssd_krb5_localauth_plugin ? Missing disable = an2ln (JIRA:RHEL-173742)

* [RHEL9.9] Concurrent child processes trigger unnecessarily backtrace (JIRA:RHEL-173743)

* [RHEL9.9] Detect foreign security principals in AD group members and silently ignore them (JIRA:RHEL-173744)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 378205

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-97438.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/10/2026

Updated: 11/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.62

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-6245

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_autofs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_certmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_certmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_nss_idmap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_simpleifp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsss_sudo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-libipa_hbac, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-libsss_nss_idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-sss-murmur, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-sss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-sssdconfig, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ad, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-common-pac, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-dbus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-idp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ipa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-kcm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-krb5-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-krb5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-nfs-idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-passkey, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-polkit-rules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd-winbind-idmap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sssd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-6245

CWE: 805

RHSA: 2026:97438

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