Medium
Security advisory
A vulnerability was found in sssd. If a user was configured with no home directory set, sssd would return '/' (the root directory) instead of '' (the empty string / no home directory). This could impact services that restrict the user's filesystem access to within their home directory through chroot() etc. All versions before 2.1 are vulnerable.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-3811
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A vulnerability was found in sssd. If a user was configured with no home directory set, sssd would return '/' (the root directory) instead of '' (the empty string / no home directory). This could impact services that restrict the user's filesystem access to within their home directory through chroot() etc. All versions before 2.1 are vulnerable.
osv:CVE-2019-3811
Complete source record
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