CVE-2022-28768

Local Privilege Escalation in Zoom Client Installer for macOS

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Nov 17, 2022
Updated: Apr 29, 2025
Reserved: Apr 6, 2022

Description

The Zoom Client for Meetings Installer for macOS (Standard and for IT Admin) before version 5.12.6 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability during the install process to escalate their privileges to root.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	Zoom

Weaknesses

CWE-689 Permission Race Condition During Resource Copy

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Zoom Client for Meetings Installer for macOS (Standard and for IT Admin)Zoom Video Communications Inc	before 5.12.6Affected

References

https://explore.zoom.us/en/trust/security/security-bulletin/

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