CVE-2020-26880

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CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p28

Published

Oct 7, 2020 (Oct 7, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: sympa fedoraproject debian
Products: sympa, fedora, debian linux
Weakness: CWE-269
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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