{"id":"CVE-2020-11469","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-11469","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:32:46.863Z","title":"Zoom Client for Meetings through 4.6.8 on macOS copies runwithroot to a user-writable temporary directory during installation, which allows a local process (with the user's privileges) to obtain root access by replacing runwithroot.","description":"Zoom Client for Meetings through 4.6.8 on macOS copies runwithroot to a user-writable temporary directory during installation, which allows a local process (with the user's privileges) to obtain root access by replacing runwithroot.","published":"2020-04-01T22:15:17.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:50:14.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-552"],"affected":["zoom/meetings"],"epss":{"score":0.00418,"percentile":0.35872,"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 (0.42%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x56.html","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x56.html","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11469","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."}