CVE-2020-26880

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 High 7.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-26880
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2020-10-07T18:15:12
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-11-16T14:50:50
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-269 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 6.2.56
cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26880
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26880
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:16:38 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 23:50:17 2020-10-07T18:15Z 2020-10-07T18:15:12 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 23:50:17 2022-11-16T14:50:50 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 23:50:17 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated