CVE-2023-28596

Local Privilege Escalation in Zoom for macOS Installers

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Mar 27, 2023
Updated: Feb 19, 2025
Reserved: Mar 17, 2023

Description

Zoom Client for IT Admin macOS installers before version 5.13.5 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability in an attack chain during the installation process to escalate their privileges to privileges to root.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	Zoom

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Zoom Client for Meetings for IT Admin macOS installersZoom Video Communications Inc	before 5.13.5Affected

References

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

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