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.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
7.8 HIGH
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
mitreCNA
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CVEADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 12%
VendorProductVersion
sympasympa
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≤ 6.2.56
sympasympa
6.2.57:beta1
sympasympa
6.2.57:beta2
debiandebian_linux
9.0
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= Vulnerable software versions
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
sympa
bullseye
postponed
bookworm
postponed
buster
postponed
stretch
postponed
sid
vulnerable
trixie
vulnerable
Ubuntu logo
Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
Codename
sympa
noble
not-affected
mantic
not-affected
lunar
not-affected
kinetic
ignored
jammy
needed
impish
ignored
hirsute
ignored
groovy
ignored
focal
needed
bionic
needed
xenial
needs-triage
trusty
dne