Local Privilege Escalation in Zoom Client Installer for macOS

published 2022-11-17 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-33207

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Zoom Video Communications Inc Zoom Client for Meetings Installer for macOS (Standard and for IT Admin) 5.12.6

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-29)

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Zoom Video Communications Inc Zoom Client for Meetings Installer for macOS (Standard and for IT Admin)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-689 Permission Race Condition During Resource Copy
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

explore.zoom.us /en/trust/security/security-bulletin/
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-28768
NVD CVE-2022-28768

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Summary