CVE-2026-59681 HIGH

CVE-2026-59681: yast2-auth-client: OS command injection via unsanitized Organizational Unit / dnsHostName in AD join

Vendor Suse
Product yast2-auth-client
Weakness CWE-78
Published September 1, 2026
Last update September 2, 2026

CVSS base score

8.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A OS command injection vulnerability in yast2-auth-client allows an attacker who controls Active Directory configuration values to execute arbitrary commands as root on the configured host. Auth::AuthConf in src/lib/auth/authconf.rb assembles the Samba net ads join, net ads lookup -S and net ads testjoin invocations by interpolating configuration values into a single command string and passing that string to Open3.popen2 / Open3.capture2, which causes Ruby to run it through /bin/sh. The Organizational Unit (ou), dnshostname, AD user name and AD domain name values are neither validated nor shell-quoted.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 1, 2026 CVE published
September 2, 2026 Record updated

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