CVE-2019-18822

Published Apr 14, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 8.8 High EPSS 1.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability in ZOOM Call Recording 6.3.1 allows its user account (i.e., the account under which the program runs - by default, the callrec account) to elevate privileges to root by abusing the callrec-rs@.service. The callrec-rs@.service starts the /opt/callrec/bin/rs binary with root privileges, and this binary is owned by callrec. It can be replaced by a Trojan horse.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-8524 A privilege escalation vulnerability in ZOOM Call Recording 6.3.1 allows its user account (i.e., the account under which the program runs - by default, the callrec account) to elevate privileges to root by abusing the callrec-rs@.service. The callrec-rs@.service starts the /opt/callrec/bin/rs binary with root privileges, and this binary is owned by callrec. It can be replaced by a Trojan horse.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 2:02 AM
Reserved
Nov 7, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 14, 2020, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:25 AM