vulnerability

Zoom Zoom: CVE-2021-34412: Zoom for Windows Installer Local Privilege Escalation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 30, 2021
Added
Nov 14, 2023
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

During the installation process for all versions of the Zoom Client for Meetings for Windows before 5.4.0, it is possible to launch Internet Explorer. If the installer was launched with elevated privileges such as by SCCM this can result in a local privilege escalation.Users can help keep themselves secure by applying current updates or downloading the latest Zoom software with all current security updates fromhttps://zoom.us/download.

Solution

zoom-zoom-upgrade-latest
Title
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