An update for sssd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) service provides a set of daemons to
 manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch (NSS) and the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system to connect to multiple different account sources.

Security Fix(es):

* sssd: SSSD default Kerberos configuration allows privilege escalation on
 AD-joined Linux systems (CVE-2025-11561)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
 score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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CVE-2025-11561: Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269)