A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in sympa up to 6.2.31. This issue affects an unknown code of the file wwsympa.fcgi. The manipulation as part of a GET/POST Request leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The bug was discovered 04/19/2018. The weakness was presented 06/26/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at lists.debian.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-1000550 since 06/22/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 68 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 111313 (Debian DLA-1441-1 : sympa security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 176468 (Debian Security Update for sympa (DSA 4285-1)).

Upgrading to version 6.2.32 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 4 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (111313).

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• 6.2.0
• 6.2.1
• 6.2.2
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• 6.2.4
• 6.2.5
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• 6.2.24
• 6.2.25
• 6.2.26
• 6.2.27
• 6.2.28
• 6.2.29
• 6.2.30
• 6.2.31

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