Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2020-26880

Sympa through 6.2.57b.2 allows a local privilege escalation from the sympa user account to full root access by modifying the sympa.conf configuration file (which is owned by sympa) and parsing it through the setuid sympa_newaliases-wrapper executable.

  • Published: Oct 7, 2020
  • Updated: Apr 14, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2020-26880
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.8
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.2
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
sympa / sympa 6.2.57-beta1 6.2.57-beta1.x
sympa / sympa 6.2.57-beta2 6.2.57-beta2.x
sympa / sympa - 6.2.56.x
fedoraproject / fedora 32 32.x
fedoraproject / fedora 33 33.x
fedoraproject / fedora 34 34.x
debian / debian_linux 9.0 9.0.x