CVE-2022-3569 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) versions 9.0.0 and prior. The vulnerability arises from incorrect sudo permissions, allowing the 'zimbra' user to coerce the postfix service into executing arbitrary commands as 'root'. This is due to a misconfiguration in the sudoers file or related privilege management, which fails to properly restrict the commands that can be run with elevated privileges.
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This repository contains a single Metasploit module (modules/exploits/linux/local/zimbra_postfix_priv_esc.rb) that exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-3569) in Zimbra Collaboration Suite on Linux. The exploit targets systems where the 'zimbra' user is allowed to execute the postfix binary as root via sudo without a password. The module checks for the presence of the postfix binary, verifies sudo permissions, and then uploads a payload executable to a writable directory (default: /tmp). It then triggers postfix to execute the payload as root, resulting in a root shell or meterpreter session. The module is operational and provides a customizable payload, but is not weaponized for mass exploitation. The main endpoints of interest are the postfix binary, the Zimbra installation directory, and the writable directory used for payload deployment.
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