SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2023-43590

CVE-2023-43590 — Link following in Zoom Rooms for macOS before version 5

Link following in Zoom Rooms for macOS before version 5.16.0 may allow an authenticated user to conduct an escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS

7.8 HIGH

EPSS

11.00% (top 70.30%)

CWE

CWE-59

Published

2023-11-14T23:15:12.437Z

Last modified

2024-08-29T17:23:41.033Z

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

Link following in Zoom Rooms for macOS before version 5.16.0 may allow an authenticated user to conduct an escalation of privilege via local access.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Zoom Video Communications, Inc.	Zoom Rooms for macOS	before 5.16.0

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

Open the Sigma generator with a pre-filled prompt for this CVE to draft a starting detection in your stack of choice:

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

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