CVE-2026-59681

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductSuse Yast2-auth-client
PublishedSep 1, 2026
First seenSep 1, 2026

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
SUSE yast2-auth-clientv ≤ 5.0.4—

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CVE-2026-59681 · Suse Yast2-auth-client · Dark Radar