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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0035
EPSS Percentile
26.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-269
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
9.0
fedoraproject/fedora
32
fedoraproject/fedora
33
fedoraproject/fedora
34
sympa/sympa
6.2.57 beta1 (2 CPE variants)
sympa/sympa
< 6.2.56
Published
Oct 07, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026