Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain Super Admin credentials
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DeliveryNavigate to email media OAuth configuration
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ExploitSet Token endpoint to attacker-controlled URL
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ExecutionSave configuration
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PersistZabbix transmits client secret to malicious endpoint
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ImpactCapture OAuth client secret
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Credential protection in transit/storage
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires Super Admin privileges within Zabbix - the highest privilege level in the platform. Additionally, an email media type must be configured with OAuth 2.0 authentication and a saved Client Secret must already be present. The attacker must have write access to the media type configuration in order to modify the Token endpoint field. The CVSS vector AT:P confirms a specific attack precondition (the OAuth email media configuration) must exist. What limits exploitation: the Super Admin role requirement is a strong limiting factor, as is the dependency on a non-default OAuth email media configuration being in place. There is no path for unauthenticated or low-privilege exploitation. Scope is confined to the client secret credential; no system-level or broader data access results from this vulnerability. |
| Impact | The real-world risk of this vulnerability is very low. The CVSS 4.0 score of 2.1 with vector AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L reflects the narrow exploitation surface accurately: successful exploitation requires Super Admin-level access within Zabbix, a configured OAuth email media integration with a stored client secret, and the ability to modify the Token endpoint - conditions that collectively limit the realistic threat population to insider threats or fully compromised administrative accounts. AT:P further signals that specific preconditions (an active OAuth email media configuration) must be met. The confidentiality impact is scoped to a single OAuth client secret (VC:L), not broader system credentials or data. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or public proof-of-concept is available, meaning there is no evidence of exploitation in the wild. Because the attacker must already be a Super Admin, the marginal damage of this vulnerability over the baseline risk of a rogue Super Admin is limited - a deployment operated by even a small IT team with proper role separation would be largely unaffected. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A malicious insider with Super Admin privileges navigates to the Zabbix email media configuration, changes the OAuth Token endpoint to a server they control, and saves the configuration. The next time Zabbix attempts an OAuth token exchange - either triggered manually or by an email alert - the server transmits the stored Client Secret to the attacker's endpoint, where it is logged and captured. No public proof-of-concept exploit code has been identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 18, 2026
OAuth client secret exposure in Zabbix email media configuration allows a Super Admin to exfiltrate the stored client secret by pointing the Token endpoint to an attacker-controlled server. Because the secret is masked in the UI after saving but still transmitted when OAuth token requests are made, changing the endpoint URL effectively redirects the credential to an external host. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified; the vendor has addressed the issue by resetting the client secret whenever the token endpoint is changed.
RemediationAI
The vendor has implemented a fix that automatically resets the OAuth Client Secret when the Token endpoint URL is changed, preventing the leakage path. Organizations should apply the patched Zabbix release referenced in the vendor issue tracker at https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-28067; an exact fixed version number was not independently confirmed from the available data. As a compensating control prior to patching, restrict Super Admin role assignment to the minimum necessary personnel and audit the configured Token endpoint URL for email media OAuth settings to ensure it points to the legitimate identity provider. Enabling Zabbix audit logging to detect unauthorized changes to media type configuration provides detection capability. Note that restricting network egress from the Zabbix server to only known OAuth provider endpoints would also prevent exfiltration to attacker-controlled hosts.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Zabbix is an enterprise-grade open-source network and infrastructure monitoring platform. Its email media type supports OAuth 2.0 authentication, which requires a Client ID and Client Secret. The platform intentionally obscures the Client Secret after it is saved (a common credential-protection UX pattern), but the underlying value is still used when Zabbix authenticates against the configured Token endpoint. CWE-522 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials) applies here: the credential protection relied solely on UI masking rather than on restricting which endpoints the secret is transmitted to, so a privileged actor could redirect that transmission. The affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:zabbix:zabbix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, indicating all Zabbix versions are potentially in scope.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Super Admin access required (PR:H); only a single OAuth credential exposed (C:L); no integrity or availability impact; scope unchanged.
Primary rating from Vendor (Zabbix).
CVSS VectorVendor: Zabbix
DescriptionCVE.org
The email media OAuth field 'Client secret' cannot be read after saving, but a Super Admin can leak it by setting a malicious 'Token endpoint'. Changes were made to reset the client secret upon changing the token endpoint.
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EUVD-2026-60731
GHSA-wx93-p8qg-2gp4
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