Local Privilege Escalation in Zoom for macOS Installers

  • ZSB-23004
  • CVE-2023-28596
  • Medium
  • 5.2
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Zoom Client for IT Admin macOS installers before version 5.13.5 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability in an attack chain during the installation process to escalate their privileges to privileges to root.

Users can help keep themselves secure by applying current updates or downloading the latest Zoom software with all current security updates from https://zoom.us/download.

  • Zoom Client for Meetings for IT Admin macOS installers before version 5.13.5

Reported by Koh M. Nakagawa (tsunekoh)

Revision Date Description
1.0 03/14/2023

Initial Publication