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CVE-2020-10936

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-10936 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Sympa versions prior to 6.2.56, impacting distributions like Canonical, Debian, and Fedora. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this flaw allows a local attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.2.56CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / sympa-community/sympa/releases
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00012.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3J4NZLGAF4ZYK52XEBQDTBNHLGBEPXXN
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3TMQ3CORUOWARALACCBG2SBTIGZ5GY5
sysdream.com / news/lab
Third Party Advisory
sysdream.com / news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-10936-sympa-privileges-escalation-to-root
ExploitThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4442-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4818
Third Party Advisory