CVE-2026-104044

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.26.2
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 6.2 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-10-06. A secondary CVSS source baseline 6.2; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source

Also known asEUVD-2026-92914 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-8mhg-g2wf-86gg (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

6.2EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorNo fix is confirmed yet: check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 6.2Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

A flaw was found in sssd. A local attacker can trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending a specially crafted Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) request when passkey authentication is enabled. Due to a missing state validation check in passkey Kerberos handling, the PAM responder dereferences an uninitialized pointer and crashes. This failure disrupts authentication services on the host.

CVSS v3
6.2
EG Score
6.2MEDIUMhigh confidence
EG Risk
28
EG Risk 28/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity62% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.2 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.1% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule.
EPSS PROB
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
1st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (6.2): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.2 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
6.2 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.1% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-24). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 6, 2026

Last Modified

October 8, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 6, 2026
No fix on record yet. Sources: redhat.
Red Hat

2478664 – (CVE-2026-104044) CVE-2026-104044 sssd: sssd: Denial of Service via crafted passkey Kerberos authentication request

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2478664
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-104044 - 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-2026-104044

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-104044(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(2 across 2 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sssd2.10.1-1 ... 2.9.5-5 (26 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sssd2.10.1-2 ... 2.13.1-3 (11 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 5× in last 7d / 45× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  2. 2026-10-31 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  3. 2026-10-28 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  4. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  5. 2026-10-26 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  6. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  7. 2026-10-25 14:56 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-24 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  9. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  10. 2026-10-23 09:17 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-23 09:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mhg-g2wf-86gg · GitHub CVSS 6.2
  12. 2026-10-21 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  13. 2026-10-20 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  14. 2026-10-18 05:09 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  16. 2026-10-16 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  17. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  18. 2026-10-14 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  19. 2026-10-13 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  20. 2026-10-12 16:40 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  22. 2026-10-11 20:15 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-11 18:28 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-11 15:01 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-11 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
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  1. 2026-10-11 05:07 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-11 05:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mhg-g2wf-86gg · GitHub CVSS 6.2
  3. 2026-10-10 19:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  4. 2026-10-10 04:33 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-10 04:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mhg-g2wf-86gg · GitHub CVSS 6.2
  6. 2026-10-09 20:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  7. 2026-10-09 03:56 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-09 03:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mhg-g2wf-86gg · GitHub CVSS 6.2
  9. 2026-10-08 17:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  10. 2026-10-08 03:21 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-08 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mhg-g2wf-86gg · GitHub CVSS 6.2
  12. 2026-10-08 02:56 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-08 02:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mhg-g2wf-86gg · GitHub CVSS 6.2
  14. 2026-10-07 16:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mhg-g2wf-86gg · GitHub CVSS 6.2
  15. 2026-10-06 15:29 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-06 15:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8mhg-g2wf-86gg · GitHub CVSS 6.2
  17. 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  18. 2026-10-06 02:26 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-06 01:23 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 6.2 MEDIUM
  20. 2026-10-06 01:19 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-104044?
CVE-2026-104044 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 6, 2026. A flaw was found in sssd. A local attacker can trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending a specially crafted Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) request when passkey authentication is enabled. Due to a missing state validation check in passkey Kerberos handling, the PAM responder dereferences…
When was CVE-2026-104044 made public?
CVE-2026-104044 was made public on October 6, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on October 6, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 8, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-104044 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-104044 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (1st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-104044?
CVE-2026-104044 has a CVSS base score of 6.2 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-104044?
No fix for CVE-2026-104044 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-104044 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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