UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3811

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-3811
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3811.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3811
Upstream
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-01-15T15:29:00Z
Modified
2025-07-18T16:44:57Z
Severity
  • 4.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • 5.2 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / sssd

Package

Name
sssd
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/sssd@1.13.4-1ubuntu1.15?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.12.5-2
1.13.1-2
1.13.2-1
1.13.3-1
1.13.4-1
1.13.4-1ubuntu1
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.1
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.2
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.5
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.6
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.7
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.8
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.9
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.10
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.11
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.12
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.13
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.14
1.13.4-1ubuntu1.15

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / sssd

Package

Name
sssd
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/sssd@1.16.1-1ubuntu1.8?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.16.1-1ubuntu1.8

Affected versions

1.*

1.15.3-2ubuntu1
1.15.3-3ubuntu1
1.16.0-5ubuntu1
1.16.0-5ubuntu2
1.16.1-1ubuntu1
1.16.1-1ubuntu1.1
1.16.1-1ubuntu1.2
1.16.1-1ubuntu1.3
1.16.1-1ubuntu1.4
1.16.1-1ubuntu1.5
1.16.1-1ubuntu1.6
1.16.1-1ubuntu1.7

Ecosystem specific

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