CVE-2014-0249

The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.11.6 does not properly identify group membership when a non-POSIX group is in a group membership chain, which allows local users to bypass access restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Published: 2014-06-11 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-0249 is rated Low Risk (22.6/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.34%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-0249

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.05% 0.34% +0.29%
2 2025-03-19 0.04% 0.05% +0.01%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-0249

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.3 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-0249

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-0249

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2014-0249 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (sssd), 4 status rows across 4 suites (bookworm, bullseye, sid, trixie): resolved 4. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0249
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0249
suse low CVE-2014-0249 severity low: SUSE including 148 source package names (libipa_hbac-devel-1.11.5.1-28.1, libipa_hbac-devel-1.14.2-3.1, …), 180 product×package rows across 13 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (13 product lines)): Fixed 158, Known Not Affected 22. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0249/
ubuntu low CVE-2014-0249 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sssd), 15 status rows across 15 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 9, ignored 4, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0249

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-0249

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
fedoraproject sssd 1.11.6 cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:sssd:1.11.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 5 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-0249

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