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Zoom: CVE-2020-9767: DLL Loading Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Zoom: CVE-2020-9767: DLL Loading Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/14/2020
Created
12/09/2020
Added
12/08/2020
Modified
12/08/2020

Description

A vulnerability related to Dynamic-link Library (“DLL”) loading in the Zoom Sharing Service would allow an attacker who had local access to a machine on which the service was running with elevated privileges to elevate their system privileges as well through use of a malicious DLL. Zoom addressed this issue, which only applies to Windows users, in the 5.0.4 client release.

Solution(s)

  • zoom-windows-upgrade-5_0_4

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