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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26880
Reference (s):
- FEDORA:FEDORA-2021-a309986711
- URL: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/E2TKOL454ZKKLQCUSUPNEZ52WELN4OAH/
- FEDORA:FEDORA-2021-aa993dd633
- URL: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/B5MFWWYY4TSQAXBWZ6SBFX43BLUL3WWI/
- FEDORA:FEDORA-2021-af8fa074ad