A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the optional dnscache package of Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) allows the Unix zimbra account to access files with root privileges. The passwordless sudo policy permits arbitrary arguments to zmunbound, whose wrapper forwards them to Unbound without restricting the configuration path. An attacker can supply a configuration that retains root privileges and disables the chroot. Include directives expose root-readable file contents through parser errors, while an attacker-selected logfile path creates a root-owned file or appends Unbound log records to an existing file. This can disclose password hashes and private keys and corrupt privileged configuration files, preventing affected services from starting with the modified configuration. The affected configuration is present in ZCS 10.1.16 and 10.1.21 dnscache packages.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 7
- StatusUndergoing Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-24 03:55
- StatusPublished → Undergoing AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-24 04:18
- StatusAwaiting Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-23 13:50
- StatusPublished → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-23 16:44
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-23 13:50
- StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-23 14:17
- First seenCVSS 7.8 · zimbraNVD modified 2026-10-23 13:50
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
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