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CVE-2020-10936
Sympa before 6.2.56 allows privilege escalation.
High7.8EPSS 0.48%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Sympa before 6.2.56 allows privilege escalation.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 58% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- https://sysdream.com/news/lab/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-10936-sympa-privileges-escalation-to-root/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-9b6c969aac (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-d767d9077b (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-4442-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201007 [SECURITY] [DLA 2401-1] sympa security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4818 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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