CVE-2022-22788 DLL injection in Zoom Opener installer for Zoom and Zoom Rooms clients

High 7.1 Published Updated

Attackers can execute arbitrary code on victims' hosts via DLL injection in the Zoom Opener installer used when joining meetings without the client installed.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2022-22788?

CVE-2022-22788 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Zoom Rooms, published on 15 Jun 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Zoom Opener installer is downloaded by a user from the Launch meeting page, when attempting to join a meeting without having the Zoom Meeting Client installed. The Zoom Opener installer for Zoom Client for Meetings before version 5.10.3 and Zoom Rooms for Conference Room for Windows before version 5.10.3 are susceptible to a DLL injection attack. This vulnerability could be used to run arbitrary code on the victims host.

Weakness: CWE-427

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22788?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Zoom Meetings, Zoom Rooms.

How do I fix CVE-2022-22788?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-22788 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2022-22788 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22788 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Zoom Rooms vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-79j9-4f8h-p5qv.

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