Vulnerability · Published Apr 1, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-11469
Medium 6.3
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 36% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
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.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x56.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/ x_refsource_MISC