MEDIUMVulnerability
CVE-2026-6245
A flaw was found in the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). The pam_passkey_child_read_data() function within the PAM passkey responder fails to properly handle raw bytes received from a pipe. Because the data is treated as a NUL-terminated C string without explicit termination, it results in an out-of-bounds read when processed by functions like snprintf(). A local attacker could potentially trigger this vulnerability by initiating a crafted passkey authentication request, causing the SSSD PAM responder to crash, resulting in a local Denial of Service (DoS).
Properties
- severity
- MEDIUM
- score
- 5.5
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-6245
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- published_at
- 2026-04-15T19:16:38.250
- last_modified
- 2026-08-12T16:24:06.437
Related Entities (9)
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (7)
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HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Buffer Access with Incorrect Length Value
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
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