CVE-2020-26932 Misconfiguration in n/a

What is CVE-2020-26932?

CVE-2020-26932 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 Oct 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

debian/sympa.postinst for the Debian Sympa package before 6.2.40~dfsg-7 uses mode 4755 for sympa_newaliases-wrapper, whereas the intended permissions are mode 4750 (for access by the sympa group)

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-26932?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Sympa Sympa.

How do I fix CVE-2020-26932?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-26932 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-26932 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-2020-26932, GHSA-rpg9-m4gw-3xwf, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-26932.