Zimbra Collaboration Suite Local Privilege Escalation via Unrestricted Postfix Sudo Permissions
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.
CVE-2026-50057
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-50057
Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
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Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "Zimbra",
"product": "Zimbra Collaboration Suite",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"versionType": "semver",
"lessThanOrEqual": "10.1.21"
}
],
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-50057
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Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #55766 · Revision 1
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