CVE catalog

CVE-2020-26880

sympa: CVE-2020-26880

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
0.35% · Oct 25, 2026

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.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debiansympasid6.2.76~dfsg-1.1fixed
Debiansympaforky6.2.76~dfsg-1.1fixed
Debiansympatrixie6.2.76~dfsg-1fixed
Debiansympabookworm6.2.70~dfsg-2+deb12u1fixed
Debiansympabookworm-security6.2.70~dfsg-2+deb12u1fixed
Ubuntusympapro6.2.60~dfsg-4build1vulnerable
Ubuntusympapro6.2.66~dfsg-1vulnerable
Ubuntusympapro6.2.66~dfsg-2vulnerable
Ubuntusympapro6.2.66~dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1vulnerable

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debiansympasourcesid6.2.60~dfsg-2not yet assignedNot reported[972114]
Debiansympasourceforky6.2.60~dfsg-2not yet assignedNot reported[972114]
Debiansympasourcetrixie6.2.60~dfsg-2not yet assignedNot reported[972114]
Debiansympasourcebookworm6.2.60~dfsg-2not yet assignedNot reported[972114]

[Debian bug #972114]

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [sympa]Fixed
    Details (4)

    • 6.2.70~dfsg-2+deb12u1 · amd64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 6.2.60~dfsg-2

      dsa · sympa · debian · bookworm; dsa · sympa · debian · 12

    • 6.2.70~dfsg-2+deb12u1 · arm64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 6.2.60~dfsg-2

      dsa · sympa · debian · bookworm; dsa · sympa · debian · 12

    • 6.2.70~dfsg-2+deb12u1 · amd64 · bookworm-security

      Fixed · Fixed: 6.2.60~dfsg-2

      dsa · sympa · debian · bookworm; dsa · sympa · debian · 12

    • 6.2.70~dfsg-2+deb12u1 · arm64 · bookworm-security

      Fixed · Fixed: 6.2.60~dfsg-2

      dsa · sympa · debian · bookworm; dsa · sympa · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

  • [sympa]Fixed
    Details (2)

    • 6.2.76~dfsg-1 · amd64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 6.2.60~dfsg-2

      dsa · sympa · debian · 13

    • 6.2.76~dfsg-1 · arm64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 6.2.60~dfsg-2

      dsa · sympa · debian · 13

Observed:

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database]