CVE-2020-26880
Publication date 7 October 2020
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
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.
Status
Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
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sympa | 24.10 oracular |
Not affected
|
24.04 LTS noble |
Not affected
|
|
22.04 LTS jammy |
Vulnerable
|
|
20.04 LTS focal |
Vulnerable
|
|
18.04 LTS bionic |
Vulnerable
|
|
16.04 LTS xenial |
Needs evaluation
|
|
14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
Patch details
Package | Patch details |
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sympa |
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
Base score | 7.8 · High |
Attack vector | Local |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | Low |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | High |
Integrity impact | High |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |