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openSUSE 2026-3025-1 sssd Important Privilege Escalation Issues

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Calendar Grey July 15, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Two important vulnerabilities in sssd resolved by the latest openSUSE update are crucial for maintaining system security.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities 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).

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP6-LTSS-2026-3025=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP6-2026-3025=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-3025=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* sssd-dbus-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* libsss_simpleifp0-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* sssd-ipa-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* sssd-tools-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* python3-sss_nss_idmap-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* sssd-krb5-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* libsss_certmap0-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* libsss_simpleifp-devel-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* libnfsidmap-sss-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* python3-sss_nss_idmap-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* python3-sssd-config-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* sssd-krb5-common-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* python3-sssd-config-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* sssd-debugsource-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* sssd-proxy-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* sssd-ad-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* python3-ipa_hbac-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* sssd-ldap-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* libsss_idmap0-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* python3-ipa_hbac-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* libsss_nss_idmap0-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

* sssd-ad-debuginfo-2.10.2-150600.3.53.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

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

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270708

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270709

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:3025-1
Release Date: 2026-07-15T09:49:27Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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