CVE-2022-3569 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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'.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02836.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Synacor	Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:synacor:zimbra_collaboration_suite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-42933	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'.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169430/Zimbra-Privilege-Escalation.html
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/17141
https://twitter.com/ldsopreload/status/1580539318879547392

History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.0222}`	epss `{'score': 0.02478}`

Tue, 13 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: rapid7

Published: 2022-10-17T22:45:11.553Z

Updated: 2025-05-13T15:04:07.694Z

Reserved: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3569

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:14:02.074Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-17T23:15:09.437

Modified: 2025-05-13T15:15:49.637

Link: CVE-2022-3569

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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