Bug 2530989 - CVE-2026-87853 sssd: sssd: IdP authentication prefix comparison allows cross-user impersonation [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-87853 sssd: sssd: IdP authentication prefix comparison allows cross-...
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Status: ON_QA
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: sssd
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Alexey Tikhonov
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-87853
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Reported: 2026-09-09 14:27 UTC by Samuele Negrini
Modified: 2026-10-08 13:43 UTC (History)
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Description Samuele Negrini 2026-09-09 14:27:30 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Alexey Tikhonov 2026-09-09 15:27:34 UTC
Upstream PR: https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/pull/9250

Comment 2 Alexey Tikhonov 2026-09-10 11:14:07 UTC
Fixed upstream via https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/commit/f3a324918c1a35bd0195a1de5b17897a0d3b6274


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