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CVE-2026-50057: Zimbra Collaboration Suite Local Privilege Escalation via Unrestricted Postfix Sudo Permissions

• 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-732

Description

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 remove the execution path. Exploitation requires local command execution as zimbra on an MTA node. 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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