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Unpatched Zimbra flaw under attack is letting hackers backdoor servers

  • October 10, 2022
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The flaw has been under attack since at least early September.

DAN GOODIN - 10/8/2022

 

An unpatched code-execution vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration software is under active exploitation by attackers using the attacks to backdoor servers.

The attacks began no later than September 7, when a Zimbra customer reported a few days later that a server running the company's Amavis spam-filtering engine processed an email containing a malicious attachment. Within seconds, the scanner copied a malicious Java file to the server and then executed it. With that, the attackers had installed a web shell, which they could then use to log into and take control of the server.

 

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