What is CVE-2022-36925?

CVE-2022-36925 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zoom Rooms, classified under Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2023-01-09.

How severe is CVE-2022-36925?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Zoom Rooms

CVE-2022-36925

Zoom Rooms for macOS clients before version 5.11.4 contain an insecure key generation mechanism. The encryption key used for IPC between the Zoom Rooms daemon service and the Zoom Rooms client was generated using parameters that could be obtained by a local low-privileged application. That key can then be used to interact with the daemon service to execute privileged functions and cause a local denial of service.

Published 2023-01-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (1.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 2nd percentile — 1.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Zoom Rooms
Zoom Video Communications Inc Rooms For macOS — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

explore.zoom.us/en/trust/security/security-bulletin/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-36925?: CVE-2022-36925 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zoom Rooms, classified under Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2023-01-09.
How severe is CVE-2022-36925?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.