CVE-2026-50057

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductZimbra Collaboration Suite
PublishedOct 23, 2026
First seenOct 23, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-732CWE-732

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suitev ≤ 10.1.21—

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