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Sympa <= 5.4.3 sympa.pl Local File Overwrite

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4626

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a local flaw in an application that handles local files.

Description

The remote host is running Sympa, an open-source mailing list software application.

This version of Sympa is vulnerable to a flaw due to the way that sympa.pl creates files when the '--make_alias_file' option is used. An attacker exploiting this flaw would need local access. Successful exploitation would result in the attacker overwriting local files which the Sympa application had permissions on.

Solution

Upgrade to a version higher than 5.4.3.

See Also

http://www.sympa.org

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4626

Family: CGI

Published: 8/18/2008

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:sympa:sympa

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4476

BID: 30727