vulnerability

Zoom Zoom: CVE-2023-34120: Improper Privilege Management

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:P)
Published
Jun 13, 2023
Added
Jan 8, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Improper privilege management in Zoom for Windows, Zoom Rooms for Windows, and Zoom VDI for Windows clients before 5.14.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access. Users may potentially utilize higher level system privileges maintained by the Zoom client to spawn processes with escalated privileges.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
Rapid7 Labs

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