Aug. 17, 2022, 11:11 a.m. | Bruce Schneier

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This vulnerability was reported to Zoom last December:


The exploit works by targeting the installer for the Zoom application, which needs to run with special user permissions in order to install or remove the main Zoom application from a computer. Though the installer requires a user to enter their password on first adding the application to the system, Wardle found that an auto-update function then continually ran in the background with superuser privileges.


When Zoom issued an update, the updater …

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