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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 7.8KEV
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.55%

44th 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.

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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