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.

Published 2020-04-01 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (33.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 34th percentile — 33.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Zoom Meetings

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-552 — Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

References

objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x56.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/ (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.