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CVE-2018-10852

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10852 describes a vulnerability in SSSD versions prior to 1.16.3, affecting products like Debian, Fedora, and Red Hat. The flaw allows unauthorized access to sudo rules due to overly permissive UNIX pipe permissions used by sudo to communicate with SSSD. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, potentially leading to unauthorized information disclosure (CWE-200). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.16.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:sssd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

3.8LOW

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0152 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: sssd-0:1.16.2-13.el7
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: sssd
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: sssd
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: sssd

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-10852Low

sssd: information leak from the sssd-sudo responder

Jun 26, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3158
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00019.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/104547
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry