CVE-2026-6245CWE-805

CVE-2026-6245

Medium · published April 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00149 · 3.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-805 · Buffer Access with Incorrect Length Value
Published
2026-04-15T23:16Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
fedoraproject/sssdall versions—
redhat/openshift_container_platformall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 APR 18:35Z
    Sssd: out-of-bounds read in the sssd
    cvelistv5