Medium
Security advisory
In Zammad before 6.3.1, a Ruby gem bundled by Zammad is installed with world-writable file permissions. This allowed a local attacker on the server to modify the gem's files, injecting arbitrary code into Zammad processes (which run with the environment and permissions of the Zammad user).
- Products
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- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-36078
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 15:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Zammad before 6.3.1, a Ruby gem bundled by Zammad is installed with world-writable file permissions. This allowed a local attacker on the server to modify the gem's files, injecting arbitrary code into Zammad processes (which run with the environment and permissions of the Zammad user).
osv:CVE-2024-36078
Complete source record
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