Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Zimbra Collaboration Email Body Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration.
Zimbra Collaboration is an open, secure collaboration software suite for email, address book, calendar, file-sharing and tasks. According to its website, there are over 500 million people who are using Zimbra Collaboration and come from 135+ countries. Zimbra Collaboration is used by 500+ service providers, 1000+ government & financial institutions and 200k+ businesses. They include global brands such as NTT Communications, Comcast, Dell, Cadbury, Investec, Rackspace, Red Hat, VMware, H&R Block and Vodafone.
A persistent XSS vulnerability has been discovered in Zimbra Collaboration. The vulnerability is caused due to insufficiently sanitizing email body content. It allows remote attackers to launch XSS attack against Zimbra Collaboration users.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Zimbra.Email.Body.XSS
Released Oct 08, 2015
Users should apply the solution provided by Zimbra.

Additional Information

Any attacker who can send an email to Zimbra Collaboration users could establish the XSS attack.

References

• https://community.zimbra.com/collaboration/f/1884/t/1140919
• CVE-2015-7609

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Zhouyuan Yang of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

IPS Subscription

Fortinet customers who subscribe to Fortinet's intrusion prevention (IPS) service should be protected against this vulnerability with the appropriate configuration parameters in place. Fortinet's IPS service is one component of FortiGuard Subscription Services, which also offer comprehensive solutions such as antivirus, Web content filtering and antispam capabilities. These services enable protection against threats on both application and network layers. FortiGuard Services are continuously updated by FortiGuard Labs, which enables Fortinet to deliver a combination of multi-layered security intelligence and true zero-day protection from new and emerging threats. These updates are delivered to all FortiGate, FortiMail and FortiClient products. Fortinet strictly follows responsible disclosure guidelines to ensure optimum protection during a threat's lifecycle.