Vulnerabilites related to Canonical - authd
CVE-2025-5689 (GCVE-0-2025-5689)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-16 11:37
Modified
2025-06-17 17:27
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Summary
A flaw was found in the temporary user record that authd uses in the pre-auth NSS. As a result, a user login for the first time will be considered to be part of the root group in the context of that SSH session.
References
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