CVE-2020-26880

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.

CVSS v3.0 7.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 7.2 HIGH

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CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.2^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
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://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009	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@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/	Mailing List Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta1::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta2::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa::::::::

Configuration 2 (hide)

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

Configuration 3 (hide)

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

Information

Published : 2020-10-07 11:15

Updated : 2022-11-16 06:50

NVD link : CVE-2020-26880

Mitre link : CVE-2020-26880

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

Products Affected

debian

debian_linux

sympa

sympa

fedoraproject

fedora

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