CVE-2018-20160 — ZxChat (aka ZeXtras Chat), as used for zimbra-chat and zimbra-talk in Synacor Zi

ZxChat (aka ZeXtras Chat), as used for zimbra-chat and zimbra-talk in Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite 8.7 and 8.8 and in other products, allows XXE attacks, as demonstrated by a crafted XML request to mailboxd.

01What is this vulnerability?

ZxChat (aka ZeXtras Chat), as used for zimbra-chat and zimbra-talk in Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite 8.7 and 8.8 and in other products, allows XXE attacks, as demonstrated by a crafted XML request to mailboxd.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-05-29T21:12:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:51:19.209Z

09References

• wiki.zimbra.com — https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Security_Advisories
• wiki.zimbra.com — https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Security_Center
• bugzilla.zimbra.com — https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=109093