vulnerability

Zoom Zoom: CVE-2022-22782: Local privilege escalation in Windows Zoom Clients

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 27, 2022
Added
Nov 14, 2023
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The Zoom Client for Meetings for Windows prior to version 5.9.7, Zoom Rooms for Conference Room for Windows prior to version 5.10.0, Zoom Plugins for Microsoft Outlook for Windows prior to version 5.10.3, and Zoom VDI Windows Meeting Clients prior to version 5.9.6; was susceptible to a local privilege escalation issue during the installer repair operation. A malicious actor could utilize this to potentially delete system level files or folders, causing integrity or availability issues on the user’s host machine.

Solution

zoom-zoom-upgrade-latest
Title
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