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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-26880

CVE-2020-26880

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.

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Affected products

9
  • Sympa/Sympa4 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=6.2.56
    • cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: <=6.2.57b.2
  • Debian/linux
    cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Fedoraproject/Fedora3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Sympa/Sympadescription

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