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CVE-2020-26880

25
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 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
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 66th 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/issues/1009
Third Party Advisory
github.com / sympa-community/sympa/issues/943
Third Party Advisory
github.com / sympa-community/sympa/issues/943
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH