QID 379335

Date Published: 2024-02-01

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

Zimbra is a complete email, address book, calendar and tasks solution that can be accessed from the Zimbra Web Client, Zimbra Desktop offline client, Outlook and a variety of other standards-based email clients and mobile devices.

Zimbra'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.

Affected Software:
Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite 8.8.x before 8.8.15 Patch 34
Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite 9.0.x before 9.0.0 Patch 27
QID Detection Logic:
This QID runs "zmcontrol -v" to check the vulnerable version

Successful exploitation of this issue allows an attacker to compromise confidentiality and integrity

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.
  • Solution
    Vendor has released patched versions to fix this issue. For more details please refer to Zimbra Patch Version
    Vendor References

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    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    Zimbra URL Logo wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Security_Center
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