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authd Denial of Service and Local Privilege Escalation

Published Apr 27, 2026

Description

authd prior to version 0.6.4 contains a logic error in primary group ID assignment that can lead to local privilege escalation. When a user's primary group ID (GID) differs from their UID, either because the account was created with authd prior to version 0.5.4 or because the primary group was manually changed via the `authctl group set-gid` command, and the user's identity provider record is updated, authd incorrectly resets the user's primary group ID to their UID upon next login. This causes newly created files and directories to be owned by the wrong group, causing denial of service issues, and potentially granting unintended access to other local users and allowing local privilege escalation.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (5)

Change history (0)

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner canonical
Published Apr 27, 2026
Updated Apr 27, 2026
Reserved Apr 24, 2026

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Apr 27, 2026

NVD

Status Deferred
Modified Jun 17, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

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Published Apr 27, 2026
Updated Apr 27, 2026