Zoom Rooms was affected by four “high” severity vulnerabilities

Zoom addressed four “high” severity vulnerabilities impacting its popular videoconferencing software Zoom Rooms.

Zoom addressed four “high” severity vulnerabilities impacting its videoconferencing platform Zoom Rooms.

Below are the details for the bugs addressed by the company:

CVE-2022-36930 (CVSS Score 8.2) – Local Privilege Escalation in Rooms for Windows Installers.

The issue affects Rooms for Windows installers before version 5.13.0.

“A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability in an attack chain to escalate their privileges to the SYSTEM user.” reads the advisory published by the company.

CVE-2022-36929 – (CVSS Score 7.8) – Local Privilege Escalation in Rooms for Windows Clients.

The flaw affects Rooms for Windows clients before version 5.12.7. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges to the SYSTEM user.

CVE-2022-36926 – CVE-2022-36927 – (CVSS Score 8.8) – Local Privilege Escalation in Zoom Rooms for macOS Clients. The flaw affects Rooms for macOS clients before version 5.11.3. The issue can be exploited by a local low-privileged user to escalate their privileges to root.

The communications technology company also addressed two “Medium” severity bugs:

• CVE-2022-36928 – (CVSS Score 6.1) – Path Traversal in Zoom for Android Clients.
• CVE-2022-36925 – (CVSS Score 4.4) – Insecure key generation for Zoom Rooms for macOS Clients

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Rooms)

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