Sssd is a technology platform tracked across 1 threat cluster and 1 intelligence report mention on ThreatCluster. First observed December 9, 2025; most recent activity December 9, 2025.
SSSD (System Security Services Daemon) is a Linux/Unix service that provides centralized identity, authentication, and authorization services by interfacing with remote sources such as LDAP, Kerberos, and Active Directory. The SUSE advisory documents a critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-11561) in SSSD, underscoring the risk of unauthorized privilege gain on affected systems and the need for prompt patching.
SUSE has released an advisory for a critical privilege escalation vulnerability, CVE-2025-11561, affecting AD-joined Linux systems due to a default Kerberos configuration issue. The update includes a fix for this…