Zoom Rooms was affected by four “high” severity vulnerabilities

Zoom addressed four “high” severity vulnerabilities impacting its popular videoconferencing software Zoom Rooms.

Zoom addressed four “high” severity vulnerabilities impacting its videoconferencing platform Zoom Rooms.

Below are the details for the bugs addressed by the company:

CVE-2022-36930 (CVSS Score 8.2) – Local Privilege Escalation in Rooms for Windows Installers.

The issue affects Rooms for Windows installers before version 5.13.0.

“A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability in an attack chain to escalate their privileges to the SYSTEM user.” reads the advisory published by the company.

CVE-2022-36929 – (CVSS Score 7.8) – Local Privilege Escalation in Rooms for Windows Clients.

The flaw affects Rooms for Windows clients before version 5.12.7. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges to the SYSTEM user.

CVE-2022-36926 – CVE-2022-36927 – (CVSS Score 8.8) – Local Privilege Escalation in Zoom Rooms for macOS Clients. The flaw affects Rooms for macOS clients before version 5.11.3. The issue can be exploited by a local low-privileged user to escalate their privileges to root.

The communications technology company also addressed two “Medium” severity bugs:

CVE-2022-36928 – (CVSS Score 6.1) – Path Traversal in Zoom for Android Clients.
CVE-2022-36925 – (CVSS Score 4.4) – Insecure key generation for Zoom Rooms for macOS Clients

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.