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.
Published: 2020-10-07
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2441-1 sympa security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4818-1 sympa security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-19415 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.
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Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Sympa Sympa
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:03:22.911Z

Reserved: 2020-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-26880

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-10-07T18:15:12.133

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:20:24.210

Link: CVE-2020-26880

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