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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 (whi…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
SympaSympa
through 6.2.56
Version 6.2.57
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 32, 33, 34
DebianDebian Linux
Version 9.0

Weakness classification

CWE-269

References