CVE-2020-26880

EUVD-2020-19415
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
NISTPrimary
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
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 12%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
sympasympa
𝑥
≤ 6.2.56
sympasympa
6.2.57:beta1
sympasympa
6.2.57:beta2
debiandebian_linux
9.0
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
sympa
bookworm
postponed
bullseye
postponed
buster
postponed
sid
vulnerable
stretch
postponed
trixie
vulnerable
Ubuntu logo
Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
Codename
sympa
bionic
needed
focal
needed
groovy
ignored
hirsute
ignored
impish
ignored
jammy
needed
kinetic
ignored
lunar
not-affected
mantic
not-affected
noble
not-affected
trusty
dne
xenial
needs-triage