CVE-2020-26880
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.04%Published: 10/7/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26880
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/sympafrom 0, < 6.2.60~dfsg-2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |