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.

Category

7.8
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.04%
Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
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 third party advisory mailing list
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/ vendor advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ vendor advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/ vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2020-26880?
CVE-2020-26880 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2020-26880?
To fix CVE-2020-26880, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2020-26880 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2020-26880 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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