CVE-2020-9369

Publication date 24 February 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
sympa	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

msalvatore

Affects 6.2.38 to 6.2.52 inclusive

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H