CVE-2025-68645: Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) PHP Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) contains a PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability that could allow for remote attackers to craft requests to the /h/rest endpoint to influence internal request dispatching, allowing inclusion of arbitrary files from the WebRoot directory.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- The vulnerability allows remote attackers to include arbitrary files from the WebRoot directory via crafted requests.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) are affected.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Update to the patched version of ZCS as soon as possible.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68645
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2025-68645Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 98% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-68645 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for Synacor Zimbra Collaboration
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- unknownVulnerability in Synacor Zimbra Collaboration (July 7, 2026)cert-fr-avis · 2026-07-07
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-48700: Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2026-04-20
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-66376: Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2026-03-18
- criticalexploitedCVE-2020-7796: Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2026-02-17
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-27915: Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2025-10-07
- criticalexploitedCVE-2019-9621: Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2025-07-07
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