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HIGH CWE-20

CVE-2026-53409

Zoom Rooms vulnerability

Zoom·Rooms

7.8/ 10
CVSS 3.1
High severity
0.17%
EPSS exploit odds
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Higher than 6% of all CVEs
Not listed
CISA KEV catalog
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation on CISA's list.
Timeline
Published
Jul 16, 2026
Updated
Jul 17, 2026
First covered
Jul 15, 2026
Latest story
4 months ago

Summary

Improper Privilege Management in Zoom Rooms for Windows before version 7.1.0 may allow an authenticated user to conduct an escalation of privilege via local access.

CWE-20Improper input validation

Attack profile

Attack vectorLocal
ComplexityLow
PrivilegesLow
User interactionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Zoom Roomsbefore 7.1.0

References

CVE.org recordcve.org NVD entrynvd.nist.gov Advisoryzoom.com
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