CVE-2020-26880

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.

• CWE-269

• https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/
• https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/

Published

Oct 7, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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