Zimbra Memcached Injection Bug Patched

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According to SonarSource, an open-source alternative to email servers and collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Exchange. Since May 10, 2022, a patch has been released in Zimbra versions ZCS 9.0.0 Patch 24.1 and ZCS 8.8.15 Patch 31.1. Zimbra is utilized by organizations, governments, and financial institutions throughout the world. 
Unauthenticated attackers might contaminate an unwary victim’s cache, according to Simon Scannell, a vulnerability researcher at Swiss security firm Sonar. The vulnerability has been assigned the number CVE-2022-27924 (CVSS: 7.5), and it has been described as a case of “Memcached poisoning with unauthorized access,” which might allow an attacker to inject malicious commands and steal sensitive data. 
Since newline characters (\r\n) in untrusted user input were not escaped, attackers were able to inject arbitrary Memcached instructions into a targeted instance, causing cached entries to be overwritten. Memcached servers keep track of key/value pairs that may be created and retrieved using a simple text-based protocol and analyze data line by line. A malicious actor might alter the IMAP route entries for a known username by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the susceptible Zimbra server, according to the researchers. When the genuine user logs in, the Nginx Proxy in Zimbra will send all IMAP communication, including the credentials in plain text, to the attacker. 
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