Resource exhaustion in Sympa
CVE-2020-9369
Sympa 6.2.38 through 6.2.52 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption from temporary files, and a flood of notifications to listmasters) via a series of requests with malformed parameters.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.029 (85.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Sympa
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 30, 31, 32
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-9369?
- CVE-2020-9369 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sympa, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-02-24.
- How severe is CVE-2020-9369?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.