A vulnerability has been found in Zoom Client for Meetings up to 4.6.8 on macOS (Unified Communication Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Installation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Zoom Client for Meetings through 4.6.8 on macOS copies runwithroot to a user-writable temporary directory during installation, which allows a local process (with the user's privileges) to obtain root access by replacing runwithroot.

The weakness was disclosed 04/01/2020. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-11469 since 04/01/2020. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. Required for exploitation is a single authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/02/2020). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entry 152663 is pretty similar.

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• Unified Communication Software

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• Zoom

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• Client for Meetings

Version

• 4.6.0
• 4.6.1
• 4.6.2
• 4.6.3
• 4.6.4
• 4.6.5
• 4.6.6
• 4.6.7
• 4.6.8

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• free

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