A vulnerability was found in Zoom Client for Meetings up to 5.12.5 on macOS (Unified Communication Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Installer. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission race condition during resource copy vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-689. The product, while copying or cloning a resource, does not set the resource's permissions or access control until the copy is complete, leaving the resource exposed to other spheres while the copy is taking place. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was shared 11/18/2022. The advisory is shared for download at explore.zoom.us. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-28768 since 04/06/2022. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 5.12.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Unified Communication Software

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• Zoom

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• Client for Meetings

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• 5.12.0
• 5.12.1
• 5.12.2
• 5.12.3
• 5.12.4
• 5.12.5

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• free

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