Description (CNA)
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 (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00015.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5CUVLHGWCDA6B2NH467ZMKL6O2NGLQZN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/