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openSUSE Leap 15.5 sssd Important Privilege Escalation Fix 2026-3195-1

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2026
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Critical update for openSUSE resolving two issues in sssd. Immediate action required to avoid security threats.
SUSE announced a security update for sssd addressing two vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-14474 and CVE-2026-14476, which could enable privilege escalation and Kerberos authentication byp...

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 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2026-3195=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2026-3195=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2026-3195=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2026-3195=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2026-3195=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-3195=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* sssd-ipa-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-proxy-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-common-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-winbind-idmap-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-kcm-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* libipa_hbac0-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-ldap-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* python3-sssd-config-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* libsss_certmap0-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-ad-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* python3-sss_nss_idmap-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* libsss_simpleifp0-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-tools-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-krb5-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-dbus-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* libsss_simpleifp0-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* libipa_hbac0-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* libnfsidmap-sss-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* sssd-tools-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* libsss_nss_idmap0-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

* libsss_nss_idmap0-debuginfo-2.5.2-150500.10.44.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1246196

* 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=1246196

* 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-2026:3195-1
Release Date: 2026-07-22T14:30:59Z

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