6.2
MEDIUM
CVE-2025-49456
Zoom Windows Installer Race Condition Vulnerability
Description

Race condition in the installer for certain Zoom Clients for Windows may allow an unauthenticated user to impact application integrity via local access.

INFO

Published Date :

Aug. 12, 2025, 11:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 13, 2025, 5:33 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

2.5
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2025-49456 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-49456 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

No affected product recoded yet

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2025-49456.

URL Resource
https://www.zoom.com/en/trust/security-bulletin/zsb-25029

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Community reconstruction of the legacy JSON NVD Data Feeds. This project uses and redistributes data from the NVD API but is neither endorsed nor certified by the NVD.

Shell

Updated: 20 hours, 34 minutes ago
172 stars 24 fork 24 watcher
Born at : May 17, 2023, 8 a.m. This repo has been linked 14 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2025-49456 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

  • Daily CyberSecurity
Zoom Patches Critical Flaw (CVE-2025-49457): Windows Users Face Privilege Escalation Risk

Zoom has released security updates addressing two significant vulnerabilities in its Windows-based clients—CVE-2025-49456 and CVE-2025-49457—that could enable attackers to compromise systems through r ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 13, 2025 (18 hours, 46 minutes ago)

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2025-49456 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Aug. 12, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Race condition in the installer for certain Zoom Clients for Windows may allow an unauthenticated user to impact application integrity via local access.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
    Added CWE CWE-426
    Added Reference https://www.zoom.com/en/trust/security-bulletin/zsb-25029
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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