vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-61bc44ce-9f5a-11ea-aff3-f8b156c2bfe9: sympa - Security flaws in setuid wrappers

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 26, 2020
Added
May 28, 2020
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Sympa web interface by which attacker can execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Sympa uses two sorts of setuid wrappers: FastCGI wrappers newaliases wrapper The FastCGI wrappers wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi and sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi were used to make the web interface running under privileges of a dedicated user. The newaliases wrapper (sympa_newaliases-wrapper) allows Sympa to update the alias database with root privileges. Since these setuid wrappers did not clear environment variables, if environment variables like PERL5LIB were injected, forged code might be loaded and executed under privileges of setuid-ed users.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-sympa

References

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