Actively exploited vulnerability

Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS): cross-site scripting flaw under attack

CVE-2022-27926 · Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Business software6.1 medium

What is affected

Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is mostly run by companies, schools and public bodies, not on home computers. You are unlikely to have it yourself, but organisations that hold your data may. Breaches that start with flaws like this one are how personal data ends up leaked.

Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability by allowing an endpoint URL to accept parameters without sanitizing.

CISA's description

What an attacker can do

This is a cross-site scripting flaw. It lets an attacker plant a script that runs in the browser of anyone who opens the affected page, which lets them steal that person's session or act on their behalf.

How it is reached
Over the internet or network
Access the attacker needs
No account needed
Does the victim have to do something?
Yes, the victim must open or click something

What to do

  1. At home: nothing to install. Keep your own devices updated and use a different password for every service, so that a breach at one organisation does not open your other accounts.
  2. If you administer Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) at work: apply the vendor's fix or mitigation now and review logs for signs of compromise, because the flaw was being exploited before it was listed.
  3. If the product is past its support date and no fix exists, take it off the internet or retire it.

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Action required by CISA for US federal agencies

Vendor advisories and fixes

How urgent is it

CISA added this vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on April 3, 2023, which means there is reliable evidence of attacks in the wild. US federal agencies must fix it by April 24, 2023, a deadline that has already passed. That deadline does not bind anyone else, but it shows how seriously the agency rates it.

The EPSS model estimates a 18% probability that this flaw will be exploited somewhere in the next 30 days. That is higher than 97% of all scored vulnerabilities.

Its CVSS severity score is 6.1 out of 10 (medium), as recorded in the US National Vulnerability Database.

Technical description

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the /public/launchNewWindow.jsp component of Zimbra Collaboration (aka ZCS) 9.0 allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML via request parameters.

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