Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-28597

High

Published: 27 March 2023

Published
27 March 2023
Modified
19 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0063 70.8th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-28597 is a high-severity Trust Boundary Violation (CWE-501) vulnerability in Zoom Rooms. Its CVSS base score is 8.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 29.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Zoom clients prior to 5.13.5 contain an improper trust boundary implementation vulnerability. If a victim saves a local recording to an SMB location and later opens it using a link from Zoom’s web portal, an attacker positioned on an adjacent…

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network to the victim client could set up a malicious SMB server to respond to client requests, causing the client to execute attacker controlled executables. This could result in an attacker gaining access to a user's device and data, and remote code execution.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zoom
rooms
≤ 5.13.5 · ≤ 5.13.5 · ≤ 5.13.5
zoom
zoom
≤ 5.13.5 · ≤ 5.13.5 · ≤ 5.13.5
zoom
virtual desktop infrastructure
≤ 5.13.10

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-501

Establishes and maintains trust boundaries with external organizations before allowing their systems to interact with organization resources.

addresses: CWE-501

Prevents information from crossing trust boundaries without explicit approved authorizations.

addresses: CWE-501

Defining interfaces, controls, and trust responsibilities in agreements helps prevent violations of trust boundaries during data exchanges.

addresses: CWE-501

Authorizing and reviewing connections helps maintain proper trust boundaries between internal components.

addresses: CWE-501

Controlling media movement outside controlled areas maintains separation between internal and external trust boundaries.

addresses: CWE-501

Review of inter-system matching programs identifies and corrects trust-boundary violations before data crosses organizational or policy domains.

addresses: CWE-501

Defines explicit trust boundaries for PII use via documented purposes and prevents processing outside those boundaries.

addresses: CWE-501

Explicitly binding attributes to information crossing trust boundaries prevents loss of security context that leads to trust-boundary violations.

References