CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-26880
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
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.
Affected configurations
• sympa sympa (<= 6.2.56)
• sympa sympa 6.2.57
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• fedoraproject fedora 33
• fedoraproject fedora 34
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/ lists.fedoraproject.org