CVE-2020-26880 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2020-26880?

CVE-2020-26880 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 7 Oct 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-26880?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Sympa Sympa.

How do I fix CVE-2020-26880?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-26880 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-26880 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26880, GHSA-jcr2-44h4-65m5, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-26880.