Local Privilege Escalation in Zoom Rooms for Windows Clients

  • ZSB-22034
  • CVE-2022-36929
  • High
  • 7.8
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Zoom Rooms for Windows clients before version 5.12.7 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability in an attack chain to escalate their privileges to the SYSTEM user.


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 Rooms for Windows clients before version 5.12.7

Reported by sim0nsecurity

Revision Date Description
1.0 01/06/2023

Initial Publication