Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-28755

Critical

Published: 11 August 2022

Published
11 August 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0054 67.9th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-28755 is a critical-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Zoom Zoom. Its CVSS base score is 9.6 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 32.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Zoom Client for Meetings (for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows) before version 5.11.0 are susceptible to a URL parsing vulnerability. If a malicious Zoom meeting URL is opened, the malicious link may direct the user to connect to…

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an arbitrary network address, leading to additional attacks including the potential for remote code execution through launching executables from arbitrary paths.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

zoom
virtual desktop infrastructure
≤ 5.10.7
zoom
zoom
≤ 5.11.0 · ≤ 5.11.0 · ≤ 5.11.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-20 CWE-601

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-601

Security awareness includes verifying URLs and avoiding untrusted redirects that lead to malicious sites.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

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