VDB
CVE-2020-26880
CVE-2020-26880
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.04% · 13.4th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.04%
13.4th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS | sympa | 0, 6.2.18~dfsg-1, 6.2.22~dfsg-1 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | sympa | 6.2.66~dfsg-2, 0, 6.2.60~dfsg-4build1 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS | sympa | 6.2.40~dfsg-3, *, * |
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | sympa | 6.1.24~dfsg-1, 6.1.24~dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 (circl)
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420 (circl)
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235 (circl)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201109 [SECURITY] [DLA 2441-1] sympa security update (circl)
- FEDORA-2021-a309986711 (circl)
- FEDORA-2021-af8fa074ad (circl)
- FEDORA-2021-aa993dd633 (circl)
Timeline
- Oct 7, 2020 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-26880 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 third-party-advisory
- 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://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26880 third-party-advisory