{"id":"CVE-2019-18822","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-18822","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:24:56.013Z","title":"A privilege escalation vulnerability in ZOOM Call Recording 6.3.1 allows its user account (i.e., the account under which the program runs - by default, the callrec account) to elevate privileges to root by abusing the callrec-rs@.service.","description":"A privilege escalation vulnerability in ZOOM Call Recording 6.3.1 allows its user account (i.e., the account under which the program runs - by default, the callrec account) to elevate privileges to root by abusing the callrec-rs@.service. The callrec-rs@.service starts the /opt/callrec/bin/rs binary with root privileges, and this binary is owned by callrec. It can be replaced by a Trojan horse.","published":"2020-04-14T18:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:25:24.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":["eleveo/call recording"],"epss":{"score":0.01356,"percentile":0.71438,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.36%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-18822-PrivEscal-ZoomCallRecording","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.zoomint.com/solutions/call-recording","tags":["Product"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2019-18822-PrivEscal-ZoomCallRecording","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.zoomint.com/solutions/call-recording","tags":["Product"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18822","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}