CVE-2020-26880

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Sympa versiones hasta 6.2.57b.2, permite una escalada de privilegios local desde la cuenta de usuario sympa hacia el acceso root completo mediante la modificación del archivo de configuración sympa.conf (que es propiedad de sympa) y analizándolo por medio del ejecutable sympa_newaliases-wrapper de setuid

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2020-10-07 CVE Reserved
2020-10-07 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

CAPEC

References (7)

URL	Tag	Source
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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html	Mailing List

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH	2023-11-07

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Sympa Search vendor "Sympa"		Sympa Search vendor "Sympa" for product "Sympa"				<= 6.2.56 Search vendor "Sympa" for product "Sympa" and version " <= 6.2.56"		-		Affected
Sympa Search vendor "Sympa"		Sympa Search vendor "Sympa" for product "Sympa"				6.2.57 Search vendor "Sympa" for product "Sympa" and version "6.2.57"		beta1		Affected
Sympa Search vendor "Sympa"		Sympa Search vendor "Sympa" for product "Sympa"				6.2.57 Search vendor "Sympa" for product "Sympa" and version "6.2.57"		beta2		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				32 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "32"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				33 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "33"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				34 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "34"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				9.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "9.0"		-		Affected