A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) MTA package allows the Unix zimbra account to execute arbitrary…
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) MTA package allows the Unix zimbra account to execute arbitrary commands as root. The installed sudo policy permits passwordless root execution of Postfix administration commands without restricting their arguments. An attacker can select a zimbra-controlled daemon_directory in the Postfix configuration and invoke postfix set-permissions, causing Postfix to execute the attacker's post-install program as root. The Postfix configuration directory is also writable by zimbra, so restricting postconf alone does not r
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Zimbra
- Product
- sudo, Exim / Postfix / Dovecot / Sendmail, Zimbra Collaboration
- CVSS
- 7.8
- EPSS
- 0.003 (p19)
- Exposure class
- Operating system, Email
Why it ranks 22 (Routine)
- CVSS 7.8 high
- Exposed product class: email
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0) (nvd.nist.gov)
- CVE-2026-50057 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia