Fix shell injection in the Zimbra backup and restore scripts

Both scripts built a command string by interpolating user input into
bash -c:

    sudo -u zimbra bash -c "... -m '$EMAIL' ..."

The single quotes inside the double-quoted string are not protection --
the outer shell expands $EMAIL first. An address of

    x' ; id ; echo '

closes the quote and runs arbitrary commands. Both scripts require root
and invoke this through sudo -u zimbra, so injected commands execute as
the account that owns the entire mail store. Verified against the exact
quoting pattern before and after the change.

Fixed by single-quoting the script body so nothing is interpolated, and
passing values as positional arguments. The bash -c wrapper is kept
deliberately rather than calling zmmailbox directly, since it may depend
on shell setup and this could not be tested against a live Zimbra.

Two related holes in the same input paths:

- $EMAIL is also part of the backup filename, so a "/" wrote outside
  $BACKUP_DIR. Now validated as a plain address.
- The restore prompt took a filename and concatenated it into a path, so
  "../../etc/shadow" escaped $BACKUP_DIR. Now rejects anything
  containing a separator.

Also switched the backup listing from `ls | grep "$EMAIL"` to a find
with grep -F: unquoted the address was treated as a regex, so "." in it
matched any character.
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2026-08-22 22:09:28 -07:00
parent 4b42bc7a1a
commit 1170130dc9
2 changed files with 27 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ fi
read -p "Enter Zimbra username (email address): " EMAIL read -p "Enter Zimbra username (email address): " EMAIL
read -p "Enter backup directory (absolute path) [/opt/zimbra/backups]: " BACKUP_DIR read -p "Enter backup directory (absolute path) [/opt/zimbra/backups]: " BACKUP_DIR
# Reject anything that is not a plain address. $EMAIL is used both as a
# command argument and as part of the backup filename, so a "/" here
# would write outside $BACKUP_DIR entirely.
if ! [[ "$EMAIL" =~ ^[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}$ ]]; then
echo "❌ Not a valid email address: $EMAIL"
exit 1
fi
# Use default if none provided # Use default if none provided
BACKUP_DIR=${BACKUP_DIR:-/opt/zimbra/backups} BACKUP_DIR=${BACKUP_DIR:-/opt/zimbra/backups}
@@ -45,7 +53,11 @@ fi
# Run zmmailbox command as zimbra user # Run zmmailbox command as zimbra user
echo "📦 Starting backup..." echo "📦 Starting backup..."
sudo -u zimbra bash -c "/opt/zimbra/bin/zmmailbox -z -m '$EMAIL' getRestURL '//?fmt=tgz'" > "$BACKUP_FILE" # The script body is single-quoted so nothing is interpolated into it;
# $EMAIL arrives as a positional argument instead. Interpolating it (as
# this line previously did) let any shell metacharacter in the address
# run commands as the zimbra user, which owns the whole mail store.
sudo -u zimbra bash -c '/opt/zimbra/bin/zmmailbox -z -m "$1" getRestURL "//?fmt=tgz"' _ "$EMAIL" > "$BACKUP_FILE"
# Verify success # Verify success
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
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@@ -35,11 +35,19 @@ fi
# List available backups for that user # List available backups for that user
echo "📁 Available backups for $EMAIL:" echo "📁 Available backups for $EMAIL:"
ls "$BACKUP_DIR" | grep "$EMAIL" | grep '\.tgz$' # -F: match the address literally. Unquoted it was a regex, so "." in
# any address matched any character.
find "$BACKUP_DIR" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.tgz' -printf '%f\n' | grep -F "$EMAIL" || true
echo echo
# Prompt for filename # Prompt for filename
read -p "Enter the exact filename of the backup to restore (e.g., [email protected]_2024-06-11_10-20-30.tgz): " FILENAME read -p "Enter the exact filename of the backup to restore (e.g., [email protected]_2024-06-11_10-20-30.tgz): " FILENAME
# A bare filename only. Without this, "../../etc/shadow" would resolve
# outside $BACKUP_DIR and be handed to the restore command.
if [[ "$FILENAME" != "${FILENAME##*/}" || -z "$FILENAME" ]]; then
echo "❌ Enter a filename only, not a path: $FILENAME"
exit 1
fi
FULL_PATH="${BACKUP_DIR}/${FILENAME}" FULL_PATH="${BACKUP_DIR}/${FILENAME}"
# Validate file exists # Validate file exists
@@ -58,7 +66,11 @@ fi
# Run the restore command as zimbra user # Run the restore command as zimbra user
echo "🔄 Restoring backup..." echo "🔄 Restoring backup..."
sudo -u zimbra bash -c "/opt/zimbra/bin/zmmailbox -z -m '$EMAIL' postRestURL '/?fmt=tgz&resolve=skip' --file '$FULL_PATH'" # Single-quoted body: nothing is interpolated. $EMAIL and $FULL_PATH
# arrive as positional arguments. Interpolating them (as this line
# previously did) let shell metacharacters in either value run commands
# as the zimbra user.
sudo -u zimbra bash -c '/opt/zimbra/bin/zmmailbox -z -m "$1" postRestURL "/?fmt=tgz&resolve=skip" --file "$2"' _ "$EMAIL" "$FULL_PATH"
# Check result # Check result
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then