CVE-2020-26880

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.
References
Link Resource
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 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/
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 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 05:20

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 - Third Party Advisory () https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420 - Third Party Advisory () https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235 - Third Party Advisory () https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ - () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ -
References () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/ - () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/ -
References () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/ - () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/ -

07 Nov 2023, 03:20

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References
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  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-aa993dd633', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-a309986711', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/ -
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Information

Published : 2020-10-07 18:15

Updated : 2024-11-21 05:20


NVD link : CVE-2020-26880

Mitre link : CVE-2020-26880

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-26880


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Products Affected

sympa

  • sympa

debian

  • debian_linux

fedoraproject

  • fedora
CWE
CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management