CVE-2020-26880

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26880
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-26880.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-26880
Downstream
Published
2020-10-07T18:15:12.133Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:59:27.597328632Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "32"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "32"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "33"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "33"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "34"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "34"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "6.2.57-beta1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "6.2.57-beta1"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "6.2.57-beta2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "6.2.57-beta2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "sympa:sympa"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/sympa-community/sympa

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
0fa537621ffcdfa9702e2e4cf5ec4807dc6d44cf
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6.2.56"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

6.*
6.2.16
6.2.17b.1
6.2.17b.2
6.2.18
6.2.19b.1
6.2.19b.2
6.2.20
6.2.22
6.2.23b.1
6.2.23b.2
6.2.23b.3
6.2.24
6.2.25b.1
6.2.25b.2
6.2.25b.3
6.2.26
6.2.28
6.2.30
6.2.32
6.2.33b.1
6.2.33b.2
6.2.34
6.2.35b.1
6.2.36
6.2.37b.1
6.2.37b.2
6.2.37b.3
6.2.38
6.2.40
6.2.41b.1
6.2.41b.2
6.2.42
6.2.43b.1
6.2.43b.2
6.2.44
6.2.45b.1
6.2.45b.2
6.2.45b.3
6.2.46
6.2.48
6.2.49b.1
6.2.49b.2
6.2.49b.3
6.2.50
6.2.52
6.2.54
6.2.56

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-26880.json"