VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-10936
Sympa before 6.2.56 allows privilege escalation.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.50%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.50%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Sympa before 6.2.56 allows privilege escalation.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.50% probability · 41th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Affected
- sympa/sympa · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releasesRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3J4NZLGAF4ZYK52XEBQDTBNHLGBEPXXN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3TMQ3CORUOWARALACCBG2SBTIGZ5GY5/
- https://sysdream.com/news/lab/Third Party Advisory
- https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-10936-sympa-privileges-escalation-to-root/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4442-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releasesRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3J4NZLGAF4ZYK52XEBQDTBNHLGBEPXXN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3TMQ3CORUOWARALACCBG2SBTIGZ5GY5/
- https://sysdream.com/news/lab/Third Party Advisory
- https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-10936-sympa-privileges-escalation-to-root/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4442-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.