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Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process. A flaw was found in SSSD's IdP authentication provider. The eval_access_token_buf() function in src/providers/idp/idp_auth_eval.c compares the authenticated user's OIDC subject identifier against the requested user's stored SYSDB_UUID using strncmp() with the authenticated identifier's length as the count. This performs a prefix comparison rather than an exact match. An attacker whose complete IdP identifier is a strict prefix of a target user's identifier can authenticate as the target, gaining full access to the target's account, files, groups, and local authorization. With Keycloak's built-in LDAP provider (Import Users disabled), the identifier format f:<federation_id>:<username> naturally produces prefix relationships for usernames like 'admin' and 'administrator'. No victim credential, interaction, or administrative role is required.
Upstream PR: https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/pull/9250
Fixed upstream via https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/commit/f3a324918c1a35bd0195a1de5b17897a0d3b6274
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-bc2c2a37cd