CVE-2026-88252

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

This medium-severity CVE scores 5.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.1% (2nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 4.7 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 2026-10-06) is not newer than that change (2026-10-20), so it does not.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-93558 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-qj34-9w8c-jph5 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo 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).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: No code on recordExposed 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 user can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by exhausting the responder service's available file descriptors (system handles used for open connections). By opening and maintaining many concurrent connections to a responder socket while continuing to queue new connection attempts, an attacker can trigger an unthrottled retry loop. This condition leads to high CPU utilization and stalls the service, preventing legitimate identity and authentication requests from being processed.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
41
EG Risk 41/100

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)
Severity55% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation public PoC (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
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 (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-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 2026-10-24). 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 low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).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 low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

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 public PoC (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 20, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

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

2479240 – (CVE-2026-88252) CVE-2026-88252 sssd: sssd: Denial of Service via responder connection retry loop during file descriptor exhaustion

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479240
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-88252 - 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-2026-88252

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-88252(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
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 49× 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 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  2. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  3. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  4. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  5. 2026-10-28 16:25 UTCOSV refresh
  6. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  7. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  8. 2026-10-25 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  9. 2026-10-25 13:53 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-24 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  11. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  12. 2026-10-21 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  13. 2026-10-20 19:46 UTCEG score recompute▲ 0.80
  14. 2026-10-20 19:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj34-9w8c-jph5 · GitHub CVSS 4.7
  15. 2026-10-20 19:45 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.5
  16. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  17. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  18. 2026-10-18 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  19. 2026-10-18 03:03 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  21. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  22. 2026-10-15 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  23. 2026-10-14 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  24. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  25. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
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  1. 2026-10-12 14:49 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-11 19:15 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-11 16:32 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-11 14:09 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-11 14:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj34-9w8c-jph5 · GitHub CVSS 4.7
  6. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  7. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  9. 2026-10-10 15:23 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-10 15:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj34-9w8c-jph5 · GitHub CVSS 4.7
  11. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  12. 2026-10-09 16:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj34-9w8c-jph5 · GitHub CVSS 4.7
  13. 2026-10-08 17:52 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-08 17:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj34-9w8c-jph5 · GitHub CVSS 4.7
  15. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  16. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  17. 2026-10-07 19:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj34-9w8c-jph5 · GitHub CVSS 4.7
  18. 2026-10-06 20:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj34-9w8c-jph5 · GitHub CVSS 4.7
  19. 2026-10-06 19:37 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-06 19:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj34-9w8c-jph5 · GitHub CVSS 4.7
  21. 2026-10-06 18:31 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-06 18:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qj34-9w8c-jph5 · GitHub CVSS 4.7
  23. 2026-10-06 17:57 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 4.7 MEDIUM
  24. 2026-10-06 17:56 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-88252?
CVE-2026-88252 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 6, 2026. A flaw was found in sssd. A local user can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by exhausting the responder service's available file descriptors (system handles used for open connections). By opening and maintaining many concurrent connections to a responder socket while continuing to queue new…
When was CVE-2026-88252 made public?
CVE-2026-88252 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 20, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-88252 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-88252 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-2026-88252?
CVE-2026-88252 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-88252?
No fix for CVE-2026-88252 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-2026-88252 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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