CVE-2022-37393

Summary

CVECVE-2022-37393
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-08-16 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-18 17:12:00 UTC
DescriptionZimbra's sudo configuration permits the zimbra user to execute the zmslapd binary as root with arbitrary parameters. As part of its intended functionality, zmslapd can load a user-defined configuration file, which includes plugins in the form of .so files, which also execute as root.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.10 All All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 - All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p1 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p10 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p11 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p12 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p13 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p14 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p15 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p2 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p3 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p4 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p5 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p6 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p7 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p8 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.11 p9 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.6 All All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.7 All All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.7.9 All All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.0 beta1 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.10 - All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.10 p8 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.11 - All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.11 p3 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.11 p4 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.11 p5 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.12 - All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.12 p3 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.12 p4 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.15 - All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.15 p11 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.15 p26 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.15 p3 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.15 p30 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.15 p31 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.15 p32 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.15 p33 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.15 p34 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.15 p5 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.2 All All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.3 All All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.4 All All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.6 All All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.7 All All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.8 - All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.8 p1 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.8 p3 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.8 p4 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.8 p7 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.9 - All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.9 p1 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.9 p10 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 8.8.9 p3 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 9.0.0 p0 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 9.0.0 p19 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 9.0.0 p23 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 9.0.0 p25 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 9.0.0 p26 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 9.0.0 p27 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 9.0.0 p4 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 9.0.0 p7 All All
Application Zimbra Collaboration 9.0.0 p7.1 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2022-37393 | AttackerKB MISC attackerkb.com
Zimbra “zmslapd” Local Root Exploit. – Darren Martyn MISC darrenmartyn.ie
New module for 0-day Zimbra privilege escalation ("slapper") by rbowes-r7 · Pull Request #16807 · rapid7/metasploit-framework · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Darren Martyn discovered and disclosed this vulnerability

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 379335 Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2022-37393)
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