CVE-2024-27442

Summary

CVE-2024-27442 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) versions 9.0 and 10.0. The zmmailboxdmgr binary, which runs with root privileges for specific mailbox operations, contains an issue that allows an attacker to escalate privileges from the zimbra user to root. This is due to improper handling of input arguments. Consequently, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges, exploiting this local vulnerability.

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