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Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sympa  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2210-SYMPA-3074511
  • published25 Jun 2021
  • disclosed7 Oct 2020
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Introduced: 7 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-26880  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:22.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sympa package and not the sympa package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.

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