It is being reported that Zoom has disclosed multiple vulnerabilities impacting its Workplace apps, across its various platforms, that pose significant risks such as privilege escalation, denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution.
Jim Routh, Chief Trust Officer at Saviynt had this to say:
“Cyber professionals are considering the need for deep fake detection and prevention impacting virtual meetings today. It turns out that the software defects/vulnerabilities announced recently in Zoom Workplace are far more critical at this time.
DoS and remote code execution vulnerabilities have the potential for significant business disruption with the potential for ransomware exploits. Software resilience for enterprise software companies is achievable with more maturity in the development process to identify and remediate race conditions.”
Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4 follows with this:
“Given the number of people that use and rely on Zoom for their organizations’ day-to-day activities, this type of flaw could be very significant. Deepfake audio and video have already been an issue, and in this case having a Zoom meeting initiated from a legitimate account could be the difference between a person believing the caller and not believing them. Fortunately, in this case, exploiting is not something that can be done easily remotely, so physical access is required. However, it demonstrates what may be possible with other future vulnerabilities that could be remotely exploited. Due to the proliferation of deepfakes and live action scams, as opposed to just email phishing, organizations would benefit from ensuring their HDR program includes a focus on ways to ensure the caller is legitimate.”
This is really not good. Now that these are out there, threat actors will be trying to exploit those who do not update ASAP. And that’s the key to keeping safe. If you use Zoom, you should update your Zoom client ASAP.
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Zoom Workplace Apps Vulnerabilities Enable Escalated Privileges Among Other Attack Vectors
It is being reported that Zoom has disclosed multiple vulnerabilities impacting its Workplace apps, across its various platforms, that pose significant risks such as privilege escalation, denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution.
Jim Routh, Chief Trust Officer at Saviynt had this to say:
“Cyber professionals are considering the need for deep fake detection and prevention impacting virtual meetings today. It turns out that the software defects/vulnerabilities announced recently in Zoom Workplace are far more critical at this time.
DoS and remote code execution vulnerabilities have the potential for significant business disruption with the potential for ransomware exploits. Software resilience for enterprise software companies is achievable with more maturity in the development process to identify and remediate race conditions.”
Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4 follows with this:
“Given the number of people that use and rely on Zoom for their organizations’ day-to-day activities, this type of flaw could be very significant. Deepfake audio and video have already been an issue, and in this case having a Zoom meeting initiated from a legitimate account could be the difference between a person believing the caller and not believing them. Fortunately, in this case, exploiting is not something that can be done easily remotely, so physical access is required. However, it demonstrates what may be possible with other future vulnerabilities that could be remotely exploited. Due to the proliferation of deepfakes and live action scams, as opposed to just email phishing, organizations would benefit from ensuring their HDR program includes a focus on ways to ensure the caller is legitimate.”
This is really not good. Now that these are out there, threat actors will be trying to exploit those who do not update ASAP. And that’s the key to keeping safe. If you use Zoom, you should update your Zoom client ASAP.
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