# CVE-2026-63205: Zammad: Channel admins can read unauthorized attachments via signature rich-text body

- Also known as: GHSA-PP8R-X7PP-5QJ5
- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.1.2
- Published: 2026-09-25 · Updated: 2026-09-29

## Affected

- zammad: fixed in 7.1.2

## Description

Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system. Prior to 7.1.2, when creating or updating an email signature, Zammad processes inline images referenced in the signature body. If a signature body contains an HTML img tag pointing to any existing attachment, the system copies that attachment into a new signature-owned record, without checking whether the user has permission to access the original attachment. The newly created copy is then downloadable by the same channel-admin user, because attachment access is determined by the copy's owner (the signature), not the original object (e.g., a ticket or knowledge-base article). This allows a user with any of the admin.channel_email, admin.channel_google, admin.channel_microsoft365, or admin.channel_microsoft_graph permissions to read attachments they would otherwise be denied access to, such as ticket attachments belonging to groups they are not a member of. This issue is fixed in version 7.1.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zammad, upgrade to a fixed version (7.1.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/zammad/zammad/security/advisories/GHSA-pp8r-x7pp-5qj5
- https://github.com/zammad/zammad/commit/f3e4da83621efad8443a4e9fe6bd87befad47c44

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