Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:LSummary
CVE-2025-0145 is a medium-severity Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426) vulnerability in Zoom Workplace Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Its CVSS base score is 4.6 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Path Interception (T1034); ranked at the 11th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to CM-6 (Configuration Settings) and CM-7 (Least Functionality) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-0145 is an untrusted search path vulnerability (CWE-426) affecting the installer for some Zoom Workplace Apps for Windows. Published on 2025-01-30, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L). The issue enables an authorized user with local access to potentially escalate privileges by exploiting the untrusted search path during installer execution.
Exploitation requires local access, low privileges, low attack complexity, and user interaction. A malicious actor meeting these conditions could leverage the vulnerability to achieve privilege escalation, resulting in low impacts to integrity and availability within a changed scope, but no confidentiality impact.
Zoom's security bulletin ZSB-25004 at https://www.zoom.com/en/trust/security-bulletin/zsb-25004/ provides further details on mitigation and patches.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-1513
Vulnerability Data
Untrusted search path in the installer for some Zoom Workplace Apps for Windows may allow an authorized user to conduct an escalation of privilege via local access.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Secure baseline settings can enforce absolute, organization-controlled paths for critical resources.
Least-functionality configuration can prohibit unapproved directories or executables from being reachable via search paths.
Engineering principles such as trusted paths, complete mediation, and least privilege directly require hard-coded or validated search paths instead of external ones.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Preventing execution of unauthorized code directly blocks the malicious binaries that an untrusted search path would load.
Secure development practices include avoiding or sanitizing externally influenced search paths in application code.
Hardened configuration baselines can enforce safe search paths and restrict environment variables that enable the weakness.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing can discover search-path issues but does not itself prevent them in production code.
Restricting software installation reduces the chance that untrusted binaries or libraries are placed in search paths.
Secure architecture principles include hard-coded or validated search paths and avoiding reliance on untrusted directories.
Secure coding standards require absolute paths or integrity-checked search paths, directly mitigating CWE-426.
Change-management processes can enforce review of path-handling changes, indirectly lowering risk.