Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024
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
2- Sympa/Sympadescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943mitrex_refsource_MISC
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.htmlmitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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