High
Security advisory
The UNIX pipe which sudo uses to contact SSSD and read the available sudo rules from SSSD has too wide permissions, which means that anyone who can send a message using the same raw protocol that sudo and SSSD use can read the sudo rules available for any user. This affects versions of SSSD before 1.16.3.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10852
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The UNIX pipe which sudo uses to contact SSSD and read the available sudo rules from SSSD has too wide permissions, which means that anyone who can send a message using the same raw protocol that sudo and SSSD use can read the sudo rules available for any user. This affects versions of SSSD before 1.16.3.
osv:CVE-2018-10852
Complete source record
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"summary": "The UNIX pipe which sudo uses to contact SSSD and read the available sudo rules from SSSD has too wide permissions, which means that anyone who can send a message using the same raw protocol that sudo and SSSD use can read the sudo rules available for any user. This affects versions of SSSD before 1.16.3.",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:18.137457078Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2018-06-26T14:29:02.207+00:00"
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