It was discovered that when the Group Policy Objects (GPO) are not
readable by SSSD due to a too strict permission settings on the
server side, SSSD allows all authenticated users to login instead of
denying access.
A new boolean setting âad_gpo_ignore_unreadableâ (defaulting to
False) is introduced for environments where attributes in the
groupPolicyContainer are not readable and changing the permissions
on the GPO objects is not possible or desirable. See sssd-ad(5).
CVE-2019-3811
It was discovered that if a user was configured with no home
directory set, then sssd(8) returns â/â (i.e., the root directory)
instead of the empty string (meaning no home directory). This could
impact services that restrict the user's filesystem access to within
their home directory through chroot() or similar.
CVE-2021-3621
It was discovered that the sssctl(8) command was vulnerable to shell
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