CVE-2020-26932

MEDIUM

Debian Sympa <6.2.40~dfsg-7 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

debian/sympa.postinst for the Debian Sympa package before 6.2.40~dfsg-7 uses mode 4755 for sympa_newaliases-wrapper, whereas the intended permissions are mode 4750 (for access by the sympa group)

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://salsa.debian.org/sympa-team/sympa/-/merge_requests/1
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/971904

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 35.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
sympa/sympa < 6.2.40
Published Oct 10, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026