CVE-2020-26880

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-26880
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-07 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:20:00 UTC
DescriptionSympa 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 6.2.57 beta1 All All
Application Sympa Sympa 6.2.57 beta2 All All
Application Sympa Sympa 6.2.57 beta1 All All
Application Sympa Sympa 6.2.57 beta2 All All
Application Sympa Sympa All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[CVE-2020-26880] root privilege escalation from user sympa by modifying sympa.conf · Issue #1009 · sympa-community/sympa · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: sympa-6.2.62-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SA 2020-002] Security flaws in setuid wrappers, CVE-2020-10936 · Issue #943 · sympa-community/sympa · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: sympa-6.2.62-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: sympa-6.2.62-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: sympa-6.2.62-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: sympa-6.2.62-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: sympa-6.2.62-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2441-1] sympa security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SA 2020-002] Security flaws in setuid wrappers, CVE-2020-10936 · Issue #943 · sympa-community/sympa · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 281222 Fedora Security Update for sympa (FEDORA-2021-aa993dd633)
  • 281223 Fedora Security Update for sympa (FEDORA-2021-af8fa074ad)
  • 281224 Fedora Security Update for sympa (FEDORA-2021-a309986711)

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