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CVE-2014-0249

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0249 describes a vulnerability in System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) versions 1.11.6 and earlier, affecting Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This flaw prevents SSSD from correctly identifying group memberships when non-POSIX groups are part of a group chain, potentially allowing local users to bypass access restrictions. With a CVSS score of 3.3 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N), the vulnerability requires local access and medium attack complexity, leading to potential partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.11.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:sssd:1.11.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: sssd-0:1.11.6-30.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: sssd-0:1.12.2-58.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: sssd

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0249Low

sssd: incorrect expansion of group membership when encountering a non-POSIX group

May 13, 2014

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
lists.fedorahosted.org / pipermail/sssd-devel/2014-May/019495.html