Actively exploited in the wild
Zammad GmbH Zammad Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
Zammad GmbH - Zammad · Listed in the CISA KEV since 2026-10-02. This indicates confirmed attacks in production environments.
Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
CVE-2026-102490
HighCVSS 7.8KEVExploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk44th percentile - higher than 44% of all known CVEs
Summary
Vulnerability in Zammad packages (DEB and RPM) allows a local attacker with write privileges as the unprivileged zammad service account to escalate to full root privileges on the host. Service processes ran as root and executed files owned and writable by the zammad account before dropping privileges, and automatic service restarts enabled quick escalation without administrator interaction.
Risk Assessment
An attacker with access as the zammad account can gain full control of the host, leading to complete system and data compromise.
Recommendation
Apply vendor-provided patches for DEB/RPM packages immediately, or consider migrating to source installations or official container images which are not affected.
Other vulnerabilities in Zammad
See all- CVE-2017-6081High
A CSRF issue was discovered in Zammad before 1.0.4, 1.1.x before 1.1.3, and 1.2.x before 1.2.1. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending cross-domain requests directly to the REST API for users with a valid session cookie.
- CVE-2026-102489CriticalActively exploited
A session hijack vulnerability in Zammad versions 6.3.0 to 6.5.4 leads to remote code execution as the zammad user. The bug is also present in versions 7.0.0 to 7.1.2, but not exploitable due to framework changes.
- CVE-2026-84458Critical
Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system. Prior to 7.1.2, when the "Automatic account link on initial logon" setting is enabled, Zammad binds an incoming third-party (SSO) identity to an existing local account by matching the email address the identity provider reports, without verifying that the provider actually confirmed ownership of that email. An attacker who controls any identity at a configured provider, including, by default, any Azure AD tenant via Zammad's multi-tenant Microsoft 365 /common app registration, can set that identity's email to a victim's address, authenticate, and be logged in as the victim. This bypasses the victim's local password entirely and affects any existing account, including agents and administrators. Zammad will honor the xms_edov ID token claim when email verification is required in the Microsoft 365 setting, treating a missing claim as unverified. This issue is fixed in version 7.1.2.
- CVE-2024-33668Critical
An issue was discovered in Zammad before 6.3.0. The Zammad Upload Cache uses insecure, partially guessable FormIDs to identify content. An attacker could try to brute force them to upload malicious content to article drafts they have no access to.
- CVE-2017-6080Critical
An issue was discovered in Zammad before 1.0.4, 1.1.x before 1.1.3, and 1.2.x before 1.2.1, caused by lack of a protection mechanism involving HTTP Access-Control headers. An attacker can send cross-domain requests directly to the REST API for users with a valid session cookie and receive the result.
- CVE-2017-5619Critical
An issue was discovered in Zammad before 1.0.4, 1.1.x before 1.1.3, and 1.2.x before 1.2.1 that allows attackers to login using the hashed password instead of the valid password string.
- CVE-2026-84465High
Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system. Prior to 7.1.2, when Zammad checks the digital signature on an incoming S/MIME-signed email, it does not verify that the signing certificate is genuinely trusted, it only checks whether a certificate with a matching name is already stored in the system. An attacker can create their own certificate using the name of a real, previously trusted sender and use it to send a forged email. Zammad will display that email with the same "validly signed" indicator as a genuine message from the real sender, even though the attacker never had access to that sender's actual certificate or private key. This issue is fixed in version 7.1.2.
- CVE-2026-84464High
Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system. Prior to 7.1.2, zammad's External Data Source feature, used to look up records from an external system, did not properly verify whether a user was allowed to see a specific ticket, user, group, or organization before including its details in a request to that external system. An authenticated user, including one with only basic customer access, could exploit this by referencing another record's ID, and thereby view details of tickets, customer accounts, teams, or organizations that did not belong to them. This issue is fixed in version 7.1.2.
- CVE-2026-84463Medium
In Zammad prior to 7.1.2, a user with Knowledge Base editing rights can embed a video widget with a specially crafted value that is not escaped for its attribute context. When another user with session-switching permission opens the answer, their browser sends a request to Zammad's session-switching endpoint using their own credentials, switching them to an account chosen by the answer's author.
- CVE-2026-84461Medium
In Zammad prior to 7.1.2, the two-factor login step allowed an attacker to try unlimited password guesses without triggering lockout or rate limiting. The response also revealed whether a guess was correct before two-factor authentication was checked.
Original NVD description (English source)
Zammad packages built with packager.io (DEB and RPM) could have allowed a local attacker who already had file system write privileges as the unprivileged zammad service account to escalate to full root privileges on the host. Service processes began running as root and executed files that were owned and writable by the zammad account before dropping their identity to that account. An attacker holding that foothold could have escalated within seconds, because the affected services were restarted automatically whenever they stopped; no administrator interaction was required. Only installations from the DEB and RPM packages were affected — installations from source or the official container images were not. All released packaged versions were affected.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

