CVE-2025-49457 (GCVE-0-2025-49457)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-12 22:54
Modified
2025-08-14 03:56
Severity ?
9.6 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
Untrusted search path in certain Zoom Clients for Windows may allow an unauthenticated user to conduct an escalation of privilege via network access
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Impacted products
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Zoom Communications Inc Zoom Clients for Windows Version: see references
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