VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-9369
Sympa 6.2.38 through 6.2.52 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption from temporary files, and a flood of notifications to listmasters) via a series of requests with malformed parameters.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 2.92%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.92%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Sympa 6.2.38 through 6.2.52 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption from temporary files, and a flood of notifications to listmasters) via a series of requests with malformed parameters.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.92% probability · 86th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- sympa/sympa · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/886Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6TMVZ5LVYCCIHGEC7RQUMGUE7DJWUXN7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3FUYYLV6URRLAJVWXNJYK2CNOKKNHXC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XO4WJYNNHWM7DUKCN4EWYYYPXZSOI7BQ/
- https://sympa-community.github.io/security/2020-001.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/886Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6TMVZ5LVYCCIHGEC7RQUMGUE7DJWUXN7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3FUYYLV6URRLAJVWXNJYK2CNOKKNHXC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XO4WJYNNHWM7DUKCN4EWYYYPXZSOI7BQ/
- https://sympa-community.github.io/security/2020-001.htmlPatch, 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.