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zoom: Zoom vulnerability can give attackers root access to macOS: Report

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A security researcher has found a way that an attacker could leverage the macOS version of Zoom to gain access over the entire operating system.
A security researcher has found a way that an attacker could leverage the
to gain access over the entire operating system.
According to The Verge, details of the exploit were released in a presentation by
security specialist Patrick Wardle at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas this week.
Zoom has already fixed some of the bugs involved, but the researcher also presented one unpatched vulnerability that still affects systems now.
The exploit works by targeting the installer for the Zoom application, which needs to run with special user permissions to install or remove the main Zoom application from a computer.

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