View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2018-16838 severity moderate: SUSE including 435 source package names (libipa_hbac-1.16.4-21.el7, libipa_hbac-2.2.0-19.el8, …), 570 product×package rows across 40 product lines (SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3, SUSE Liberty Linux 7, … (40 product lines)): Fixed 545, Known Not Affected 25.
A flaw was found in sssd Group Policy Objects implementation. When the GPO is not readable by SSSD due to a too strict permission settings on the server side, SSSD will allow all authenticated users to login instead of denying access.