CVE-2026-80048mediumCWE-770

CVE-2026-80048: medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Sssd: sssd-kcm: local denial of service via excessive memory preallocation

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 93% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in `sssd-kcm`. A local user or process able to connect to the `sssd-kcm` UNIX socket can exploit this vulnerability. By sending a large request length header and then stalling the connection, an attacker can cause the system to preallocate significant memory. This leads to memory exhaustion within the `sssd-kcm` responder, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for affected deployments.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H