High
Security advisory
Sympa before 6.2.56 allows privilege escalation.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-10936
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Sympa before 6.2.56 allows privilege escalation.
osv:CVE-2020-10936
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-10936",
"method": "structured",
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"severity": "high",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:59.928866381Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3J4NZLGAF4ZYK52XEBQDTBNHLGBEPXXN/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3TMQ3CORUOWARALACCBG2SBTIGZ5GY5/",
"https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00012.html",
"https://sysdream.com/news/lab/",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4442-1/",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818",
"https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-10936-sympa-privileges-escalation-to-root/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 382423,
"published_at": "2020-05-27T18:15:12.813+00:00"
}