A flaw was found in SSSD. In configurations where the autofs responder service is enabled, memory allocated during successful request processing is not released until the client connection terminates. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by maintaining an open connection and repeatedly submitting valid requests, leading to memory exhaustion and a Denial of Service (DoS).
CVE-2026-104031
Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-10-06. A secondary CVSS source baseline 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 5.5MEDIUMhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 25EG Risk 25/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity55% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. - EPSS PROB
- <0.1%
- EPSS %ILE
- below the 1st
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.
No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
October 6, 2026
Last Modified
October 6, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Oct 6, 20262479418 – (CVE-2026-104031) CVE-2026-104031 sssd: SSSD: Denial of Service via memory exhaustion in autofs responder
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479418CVE-2026-104031 - Red Hat Customer Portal
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-104031Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-104031(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 18× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-10-09 20:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-09 11:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-09 11:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-08 17:11 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-08 12:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 12:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-07 23:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-07 14:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-06 15:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-06 15:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-06 13:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-06 13:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-06 13:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-06 13:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-06 01:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-06 00:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-06 00:40 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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