CVE-2020-26880
Published: 7 October 2020
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.
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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sympa Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Needed
|
| focal |
Needed
|
|
| groovy |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| hirsute |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| impish |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| jammy |
Needed
|
|
| kinetic |
Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
|
|
| lunar |
Not vulnerable
(6.2.66~dfsg-2)
|
|
| mantic |
Not vulnerable
(6.2.66~dfsg-2)
|
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
| upstream |
Released
(6.2.62)
|
|
| xenial |
Needs triage
|
|
|
Patches: upstream: https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/pull/1087 |
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Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 7.8 |
| Attack vector | Local |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity impact | High |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |