vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2020-26880): sympa vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Oct 7, 2020 | Jun 26, 2025 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 7, 2020
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Aug 18, 2025
Description
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.
Solution
no-fix-ubuntu-package
References
- CVE-2020-26880
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-26880
- CWE-269
- URL-https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009
- URL-https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420
- URL-https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26880
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