CVE-2022-3569

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Oct 17, 2022
Updated: May 13, 2025
Reserved: Oct 17, 2022

Description

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'.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS)Synacor	9.0.0 through 9.0.0Affected

References

https://twitter.com/ldsopreload/status/1580539318879547392
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/17141
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169430/Zimbra-Privilege-Escalation.html

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