CVE-2025-49457 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2025-49457

Zoom Clients for Windows - Untrusted Search Path

Vulnerability Description

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

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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CVE-2025-49456
Zoom Clients for Windows- Race Condition
Medium 6.2

Affected Vendor

Zoom Communications Inc

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Affected Software

Zoom Clients for Windows
Vulnerable Versions:
see references

Timeline

Official Publish: August 12th, 2025
Last Modified: February 26th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-426

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Privilege Escalation
T1036 Masquerading
Defense Evasion
T1543 Create or Modify System Process
Persistence
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1569 System Services
Execution