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CVE-2020-9369
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2020-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-400
Description
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.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31, 32
- Sympa: from 6.2.38 through 6.2.52
References
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/886
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6TMVZ5LVYCCIHGEC7RQUMGUE7DJWUXN7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3FUYYLV6URRLAJVWXNJYK2CNOKKNHXC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XO4WJYNNHWM7DUKCN4EWYYYPXZSOI7BQ/
- https://sympa-community.github.io/security/2020-001.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818
- https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/886
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6TMVZ5LVYCCIHGEC7RQUMGUE7DJWUXN7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3FUYYLV6URRLAJVWXNJYK2CNOKKNHXC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XO4WJYNNHWM7DUKCN4EWYYYPXZSOI7BQ/
- https://sympa-community.github.io/security/2020-001.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818
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