CVE-2026-68743

HIGHNVD 7.17.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

This high-severity CVE scores 7.1 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.1% (2nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 5.5 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2026-08-04) is not newer than that change (2026-08-31), so it does not.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-52865 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 7.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in SSSD. The extract_authtok_v1() function in the PAM responder does not validate the auth_token_length field against the remaining buffer size before processing. A local attacker can exploit this via a crafted protocol v1 request to the PAM responder socket, causing an out-of-bounds read and process crash, resulting in a denial of service.

CVSS v3
7.1
EG Score
7.1HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
32
EG Risk 32/100

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)
Severity71% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.1 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: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
2nd
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 (7.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.1% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-27). 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.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.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

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.

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

August 4, 2026

Last Modified

August 31, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 4, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red Hat

2509760 – (CVE-2026-68743) CVE-2026-68743 sssd: sssd: PAM responder out-of-bounds read via unchecked auth_token_length in protocol v1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2509760
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-68743 - 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-2026-68743

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68743(1)

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

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntusssd-tools (2.2.3-3ubuntu0.13+esm1) @ focal2026-10-28ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
sssd2.10.1-1 ... 2.9.5-5 (47 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
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
—
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
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 53× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 266 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 166 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  5. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  6. 2026-10-28 06:43 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-28 06:43 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-28 06:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  9. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  17. 2026-10-20 18:38 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-20 18:38 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-20 18:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  20. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  4. 2026-10-13 10:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  5. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  6. 2026-10-12 15:45 UTCEG score recompute
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  16. 2026-10-06 23:41 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-06 23:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  18. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  19. 2026-10-05 19:42 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-05 19:42 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-05 19:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  22. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  23. 2026-10-04 23:39 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-04 23:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  25. 2026-10-04 06:10 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-04 06:10 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-04 06:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  28. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  29. 2026-10-03 01:55 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-03 01:55 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-03 01:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  34. 2026-10-02 10:07 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-02 10:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  36. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  37. 2026-10-01 14:34 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-01 14:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  40. 2026-10-01 02:26 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-01 02:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  42. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  44. 2026-09-29 06:25 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-09-29 06:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  47. 2026-09-28 06:08 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-09-28 06:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  50. 2026-09-27 18:00 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-09-27 18:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  56. 2026-09-25 04:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  57. 2026-09-24 04:24 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-09-24 04:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  59. 2026-09-23 16:13 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-23 16:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  61. 2026-09-23 03:34 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-09-23 03:34 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-09-23 03:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  65. 2026-09-22 15:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  67. 2026-09-22 03:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  69. 2026-09-20 20:52 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-09-20 20:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  71. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS <0.1% · below the 1st percentile
  72. 2026-09-19 23:22 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-09-19 23:22 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-19 23:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3v6f-w66g-3mv6 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  75. 2026-09-19 07:57 UTCEG score recompute

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68743?
CVE-2026-68743 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 4, 2026. A flaw was found in SSSD. The extract_authtok_v1() function in the PAM responder does not validate the auth_token_length field against the remaining buffer size before processing. A local attacker can exploit this via a crafted protocol v1 request to the PAM responder socket, causing an…
When was CVE-2026-68743 made public?
CVE-2026-68743 was made public on August 3, 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 August 4, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 31, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-68743 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68743 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (2nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68743?
CVE-2026-68743 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.1 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68743?
A fix for CVE-2026-68743 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-68743 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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