Bug 1906576 (CVE-2020-29668)

Summary:	CVE-2020-29668 sympa: allows remote attackers to obtain full SOAP API access via illegal cookie
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	ikeda, xavier
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-12-10 19:50:44 UTC

Sympa before 6.2.59b.2 allows remote attackers to obtain full SOAP API access by sending any arbitrary string (except one from an expired cookie) as the cookie value to authenticateAndRun.

Reference:
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1041

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/pull/1044

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-12-10 19:51:02 UTC

Created sympa tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1906578]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1906577]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-12-11 00:47:03 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.