cve/2020/CVE-2020-26880.md

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.

POC

Reference

• https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420
• https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420
• https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235
• https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235

Github

• https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2020-26880