CVE-2025-49457 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Untrusted search path in certain Zoom Clients for Windows may allow an unauthenticated user to conduct an escalation of privilege via network access

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Zoom	Zoom Zoom Client

No data.

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References

Link	Providers
https://www.zoom.com/en/trust/security-bulletin/zsb-25030

History

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Zoom Zoom zoom Zoom zoom Client
Vendors & Products		Zoom Zoom zoom Zoom zoom Client

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Untrusted search path in certain Zoom Clients for Windows may allow an unauthenticated user to conduct an escalation of privilege via network access
Title		Zoom Clients for Windows - Untrusted Search Path
Weaknesses		CWE-426
References		https://www.zoom.com/en/trust/security-bulletin/zsb-25030
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 9.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Zoom

Published: 2025-08-12T22:54:20.362Z

Updated: 2025-08-14T03:56:14.043Z

Reserved: 2025-06-04T22:48:18.920Z

Link: CVE-2025-49457

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-13T14:14:30.748Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-12T23:15:28.243

Modified: 2025-08-13T17:33:46.673

Link: CVE-2025-49457

Redhat

No data.

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