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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-1000550 json

The Sympa Community Sympa version prior to version 6.2.32 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in wwsympa.fcgi template editing fun…

published 2018-06-26 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-1939

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • sympa sympa 6.2.32
  • sympa Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.2.32~dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000550

  • sympa Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 6.1.17~dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • sympa Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 6.1.24~dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • sympa Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 6.2.24~dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000550

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Exploit prediction

2.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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