Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-1000550

critical

CVE-2018-1000550

The Sympa Community Sympa version prior to version 6.2.32 contains a D ...

Published Modified CWE 22
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

The Sympa Community Sympa version prior to version 6.2.32 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in wwsympa.fcgi template editing function that can result in Possibility to create or modify files on the server filesystem. This attack appear to be exploitable via HTTP GET/POST request. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 6.2.32.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11sympa6.2.32~dfsg-1
debian 12sympa6.2.32~dfsg-1
debian 13sympa6.2.32~dfsg-1
debian 14sympa6.2.32~dfsg-1
debian 8sympa6.1.23~dfsg-2+deb8u2
debian 9sympa6.2.16~dfsg-3+deb9u1
echosympa6.2.32~dfsg-1
ubuntu 14.04-ESMsympa6.1.17~dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMsympa6.1.24~dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMsympa6.2.24~dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

References

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