New Delhi, Aug 15 : Online video collaboration platform Zoom has solved the most serious bug that was present on Apple macOS which could let hackers gain control of users’ operating systems when they launch the app for meetings. The company stated in an update to security that the Zoom client for meetings on macOS starting with 5.7.3 and before 5.7.3 and up to 5.11.5, “contains a vulnerability in the auto update process”.
“A local user with low privileges might exploit this flaw to increase their privileges up to root.” stated the company.
Zoom admitted to the problem (CVE-2022-28756) and stated that it has released the fix in version 5.11.5 of the app on Mac that users can download now.
A security researcher earlier discovered a method by which an attacker could use Zoom, the macOS version of Zoom to gain access to the whole operating system.
According to The Verge, details of the vulnerability were revealed in an address by Mac security expert Patrick Wardle at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas last week.
Zoom earlier fixed a few of the bugs that were involved, however the most dangerous bug was left to macOS and has since been fixed.
The exploit targeted the application installer of the Zoom application, which has to be run with special permissions granted to users to enable or disable the primary Zoom application from the computer.
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