{"id":"CVE-2020-26880","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-02T05:09:48.264064Z","published":"2020-10-07T18:15:12.133Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0fa537621ffcdfa9702e2e4cf5ec4807dc6d44cf"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.2.56"}]}}],"versions":["6.2.16","6.2.17b.1","6.2.17b.2","6.2.18","6.2.19b.1","6.2.19b.2","6.2.20","6.2.22","6.2.23b.1","6.2.23b.2","6.2.23b.3","6.2.24","6.2.25b.1","6.2.25b.2","6.2.25b.3","6.2.26","6.2.28","6.2.30","6.2.32","6.2.33b.1","6.2.33b.2","6.2.34","6.2.35b.1","6.2.36","6.2.37b.1","6.2.37b.2","6.2.37b.3","6.2.38","6.2.40","6.2.41b.1","6.2.41b.2","6.2.42","6.2.43b.1","6.2.43b.2","6.2.44","6.2.45b.1","6.2.45b.2","6.2.45b.3","6.2.46","6.2.48","6.2.49b.1","6.2.49b.2","6.2.49b.3","6.2.50","6.2.52","6.2.54","6.2.56"],"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.2.57-beta1"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.2.57-beta2"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"32"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"33"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"34"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-26880.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}