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🛡️ CVE-2023-36540 — zoom

🟠 CVSS 7.3 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-426 NVD
7.3
CVSS Score
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Description

Untrusted search path in the installer for Zoom Desktop Client for Windows before 5.14.5 may allow an authenticated user to enable an escalation of privilege via local access.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-36540 is classified as CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path. The product resolves a library or executable using a search path an attacker can influence.

Affected software

CVE-2023-36540 is recorded against 1 package.

  • zoom (fixed in 5.14.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 8 August 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

explore.zoom.us
explore.zoom.us

Other advisories for this package

zoom has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-426
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-08
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
zoom — 5.14.5

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