Sympa
CVE-2012-2352
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Permission and access control
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity. EPSS exploitation probability: 1.25%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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The archive management (arc_manage) page in wwsympa/wwsympa.fcgi.in in Sympa before 6.1.11 does not check permissions, which allows remote attackers to list, read, and delete arbitrary list archives. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-264. The archive management (arc_manage) page in wwsympa/wwsympa.fcgi.in in Sympa before 6.1.11 does not check permissions, which allows remote attackers to list, read, and delete arbitrary list archives via vectors related to the (1) do_arc_manage, (2) do_arc_download, or (3) do_arc_delete functions. Affected products include: Sympa. Version information: before 6.1.11.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
The archive management (arc_manage) page in wwsympa/wwsympa.fcgi.in in Sympa before 6.1.11 does not check permissions, which allows remote attackers to list, read, and delete arbitrary list archives via vectors related to the (1) do_arc_manage, (2) do_arc_download, or (3) do_arc_delete functions.
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Attack Technique
Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker leverages flaws in access control mechanisms to gain permissions beyond what they were originally granted.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Sympa before 6.2.56 allows privilege escalation. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack comple
sympa version 6.2.16 and later contains a CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in
The Sympa Community Sympa version prior to version 6.2.32 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in wwsympa.fcgi t
Sympa through 6.2.57b.2 allows a local privilege escalation from the sympa user account to full root access by modifying
Sympa before 6.2.59b.2 allows remote attackers to obtain full SOAP API access by sending any arbitrary string (except on
Sympa 6.2.38 through 6.2.52 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption from temporary files,
The newsletter posting area in the web interface in Sympa 6.0.x before 6.0.10 and 6.1.x before 6.1.24 allows remote atta
debian/sympa.postinst for the Debian Sympa package before 6.2.40~dfsg-7 uses mode 4755 for sympa_newaliases-wrapper, whe
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