CVE-2019-3811A vulnerability was found in sssd. If a user was configured with no home directory set, sssd would return '/' (the root directory) instead…
- 4.1MediumCVSS base score
- 0.70%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 46% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability was found in sssd. If a user was configured with no home directory set, sssd would return '/' (the root directory) instead of '' (the empty string / no home directory). This could impact services that restrict the user's filesystem access to within their home directory through chroot() etc. All versions before 2.1 are vulnerable.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.70% · top 46% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.1.
Affected products
- affected 2.1
References
References7
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190117 [SECURITY] [DLA 1635-1] sssd security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 106644 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3811 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:0344 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1174 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2177 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00028.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-13434 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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