sympa — security advisory
The Sympa Community Sympa version prior to version 6.2.32 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in wwsympa.fcgi template editing function that can result in Possibility to create or modify files on the server filesystem. This attack appear to be exploitable via HTTP GET/POST request. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 6.2.32.
- Products
- sympa
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.2.32~dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1000550
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Sympa Community Sympa version prior to version 6.2.32 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in wwsympa.fcgi template editing function that can result in Possibility to create or modify files on the server filesystem. This attack appear to be exploitable via HTTP GET/POST request. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 6.2.32.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000550
sympa
Fixed versions: 6.2.32~dfsg-1
sympa
Fixed versions: 6.2.32~dfsg-1
sympa
Fixed versions: 6.2.32~dfsg-1
Complete source record
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