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openSUSE Leap 16.0 sssd Important Privilege Escalation Risks 2026-21290-1

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Calendar Grey July 13, 2026
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Install critical patches for sssd vulnerabilities on openSUSE Leap 16.0 to secure LDAP provider and GPO cache.
An update that solves 2 vulnerabilities and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for sssd fixes the following issues

- CVE-2026-14474: sudo LDAP provider searches entire directory tree for sudoRole objects by default, enabling privilege

escalation (bsc#1270709).

- CVE-2026-14476: GPO cache path traversal via unsanitized gPCFileSysPath allows Kerberos authentication bypass

(bsc#1270708).

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-1201=1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation important OpenSUSE sssd kerberos bypass

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

libipa_hbac-devel-2.10.2-160000.3.1

libipa_hbac0-2.10.2-160000.3.1

libnfsidmap-sss-2.10.2-160000.3.1

libsss_certmap-devel-2.10.2-160000.3.1

libsss_certmap0-2.10.2-160000.3.1

libsss_idmap-devel-2.10.2-160000.3.1

libsss_idmap0-2.10.2-160000.3.1

libsss_nss_idmap-devel-2.10.2-160000.3.1

libsss_nss_idmap0-2.10.2-160000.3.1

python3-ipa_hbac-2.10.2-160000.3.1

python3-sss-murmur-2.10.2-160000.3.1

python3-sss_nss_idmap-2.10.2-160000.3.1

python3-sssd-config-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-ad-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-cifs-idmap-plugin-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-dbus-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-ipa-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-kcm-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-krb5-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-krb5-common-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-ldap-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-proxy-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-tools-2.10.2-160000.3.1

sssd-winbind-idmap-2.10.2-160000.3.1

References

* bsc#1270708

* bsc#1270709

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-14474.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-14476.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:21290-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation important OpenSUSE sssd kerberos bypass

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