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CVE-2023-34120 (GCVE-0-2023-34120)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-13 17:38 – Updated: 2025-01-02 20:10
VLAI
Summary
Improper privilege management in Zoom for Windows, Zoom Rooms for Windows, and Zoom VDI for Windows clients before 5.14.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access. Users may potentially utilize higher level system privileges maintained by the Zoom client to spawn processes with escalated privileges.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-02 20:03 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2023-06-13 16:00
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