CVE-2022-28768
The Zoom Client for Meetings Installer for macOS (Standard and for IT Admin) before version 5.12.6 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability during the install process to escalate their privileges to root.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.8
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.03%
- CWE
- CWE-689
- Published
- 2022-11-17
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- Zoom Video Communications Inc Zoom Client for Meetings Installer for macOS (Standard and for IT Admin)
Weakness type
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