CVE-2020-26880

Published Oct 7, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2441-1 sympa security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4818-1 sympa security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-19415 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.
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 4:03 PM
Reserved
Oct 7, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 7, 2020, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:08 AM