CVE-2020-9369

HIGH

Sympa 6.2.38-6.2.52 - Denial of Service via Malformed Parameter Requests

Title source: llm

Description

Sympa 6.2.38 through 6.2.52 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption from temporary files, and a flood of notifications to listmasters) via a series of requests with malformed parameters.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://sympa-community.github.io/security/2020-001.html

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/886

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XO4WJYNNHWM7DUKCN4EWYYYPXZSOI7BQ/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6TMVZ5LVYCCIHGEC7RQUMGUE7DJWUXN7/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3FUYYLV6URRLAJVWXNJYK2CNOKKNHXC/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0284

EPSS Percentile 84.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Products (5)

debian/debian_linux 10.0

fedoraproject/fedora 30

fedoraproject/fedora 31

fedoraproject/fedora 32

sympa/sympa 6.2.38 - 6.2.52

Published Feb 24, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026