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CVE-2020-26880 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ CVE

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-269Improper Privilege Management[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
sympa sympa
<= 6.2.56
6.2.57 beta1
6.2.57 beta2

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
fedoraproject fedora
32
33
34

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
9.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-26880
NVD Published Date:
Oct 7, 2020
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2020-26880 Details - Not Deferred