CVE-2020-26880

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  2. Vulnerabilities (CVE)
  3. CVE-2020-26880
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.

7.8 /10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.2 /10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References
Link Resource
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
History

07 Nov 2023, 03:20

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-a309986711', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-aa993dd633', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-af8fa074ad', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/ -
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ -
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/ -

16 Nov 2022, 14:50

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time Fedoraproject
Debian debian Linux
Debian
Fedoraproject fedora
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html - (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

09 May 2021, 03:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/ -
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ -
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/ -
Information

Published : 2020-10-07 18:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:41

NVD link : CVE-2020-26880

Mitre link : CVE-2020-26880

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-26880

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Products Affected

fedoraproject

  • fedora

sympa

  • sympa

debian

  • debian_linux
CWE
CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management