CVE-2022-3569 (GCVE-0-2022-3569)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-17 22:45 – Updated: 2025-05-13 15:04
VLAI?
Summary
Due to an issue with incorrect sudo permissions, Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) suffers from a local privilege escalation issue in versions 9.0.0 and prior, where the 'zimbra' user can effectively coerce postfix into running arbitrary commands as 'root'.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-271 - Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Affected: 9.0.0 , ≤ 9.0.0 (custom)
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Credits
Originally reported by Twitter user @ldsopreload, validated by Ron Bowes of Rapid7
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