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CVE-2026-50056: Zimbra Collaboration Suite Local Privilege Escalation via zmmailboxdmgr JVM Argument Injection

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-23 · updated 2026-10-29
• Weakness: CWE-88

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the zmmailboxdmgr launcher of Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) allows the Unix zimbra account to execute arbitrary commands as root. The passwordless sudo interface accepts JVM arguments that are not adequately restricted. An attacker can postpone Jetty's privilege drop, register an OnOutOfMemoryError command and force heap exhaustion during startup, causing the command to execute while the JVM still runs as root. Exploitation requires local command execution as zimbra on a mailbox server and interrupts mailboxd during the malicious restart. ZCS 10.1.16 and 10.1.21 are affected.

Affected products

• Zimbra Collaboration: through 10.1.21

References

• https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Security_Advisories
• https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/ve-breaking-zimbra-identity-boundaries-part-1/

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