Vulnerability · Published Oct 7, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-26880
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the sympa package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 29% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 71.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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 packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | sympa | 6.2.60~dfsg-2 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26880 |
| Debian:13 | sympa | 6.2.60~dfsg-2 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26880 |
| Debian:14 | sympa | 6.2.60~dfsg-2 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26880 |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235 x_refsource_MISC
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201109 [SECURITY] [DLA 2441-1] sympa security update mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- FEDORA-2021-a309986711 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
- FEDORA-2021-af8fa074ad vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
- FEDORA-2021-aa993dd633 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA