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. References: https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1009 https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704779420 https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-704842235
Created sympa tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 1886233] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1886232]
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