What is CVE-2020-11469?

CVE-2020-11469 is a high-severity vulnerability in Zoom Meetings, classified under Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2020-04-01.

How severe is CVE-2020-11469?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Zoom Meetings

CVE-2020-11469

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (33.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Zoom Meetings
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-552 — Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-11469?: CVE-2020-11469 is a high-severity vulnerability in Zoom Meetings, classified under Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2020-04-01.
How severe is CVE-2020-11469?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.