CVE-2020-26880
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-269
Improper Privilege Management
Publication date:
07/10/2020
Last modified:
07/11/2023
Description
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
7.80
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Base Score 2.0
7.20
Severity 2.0
HIGH
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.2.56 (including) | |
| cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/



