CVE-2020-26880 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Sympa through version 6.2.57b.2, affecting various distributions including Debian and Fedora. An attacker with access to the sympa user account can modify the sympa.conf file, which is then parsed by a setuid wrapper, leading to full root access. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.2.56CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.2.57CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.2.57CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sympa:sympa:6.2.57:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
32CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
33CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.