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Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed exploitation of CVE-2026-73570 in Internet-facing Zimbra servers, enabling unauthenticated remote command execution when specific components and settings were enabled. The attacks included planting backdoors, escalating privileges, moving between system nodes, and collecting email data and authentication material.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ordered federal civilian agencies to secure Zimbra servers within three days against an actively exploited remote code execution vulnerability. Shadowserver data indicates that more than 270 compromised instances have been observed, while the number of Zimbra servers exposed to the internet exceeds 12,000.