DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26880

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26880
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26880.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26880
Upstream
Published
2020-10-07T18:15:12.133Z
Modified
2025-11-19T01:19:08.747307Z
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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / sympa

Package

Name
sympa
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sympa?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2.60~dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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

Debian:12 / sympa

Package

Name
sympa
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sympa?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2.60~dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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

Debian:13 / sympa

Package

Name
sympa
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sympa?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2.60~dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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

Debian:14 / sympa

Package

Name
sympa
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sympa?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2.60~dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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