Vulnerabilites related to Synacor - Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS)
CVE-2022-3569 (GCVE-0-2022-3569)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-17 22:45
Modified
2025-05-13 15:04
CWE
  • CWE-271 - Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors
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'.
Impacted products
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