Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2023-28601 is a high-severity Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard (CWE-358) vulnerability in Zoom Zoom. Its CVSS base score is 8.3 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Steganography (T1001.002); ranked in the top 39% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-32271
Vulnerability Data
Zoom for Windows clients prior to 5.14.0 contain an improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer vulnerability. A malicious user may alter protected Zoom Client memory buffer potentially causing integrity issues within the Zoom Client.
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Control response
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V17.2.8
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.
Assessments identify and document improperly implemented security checks, allowing fixes that reduce exploitation of flawed checks.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.
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.
Secure SDLC practices directly require correct implementation of standardized security checks and algorithms.
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.
Use of cryptography control depends on correct implementation of standardized cryptographic checks.
A.8.25 mandates security requirements, checkpoints, secure coding, testing (incl. code scans/pen tests) and developer capability in the SDLC, which reaches a minority slice of CWE-358 (incorrect implementation of a standardized security check) but leaves most instances (e.g. flawed protocol logic, spec misinterpretation, or non-coded design errors) unaddressed.
Application security requirements explicitly call for correct implementation of standardized security mechanisms.
A.8.27 mandates applying security-by-design principles (defense-in-depth, least privilege, fail securely, distrust external input, security-oriented design reviews) that reach some but not most instances of CWE-358, which is a narrow implementation error against a standardized check (e.g. protocol-level auth bypass, cert validation flaw) that can still arise in code even when the principles are followed.
Hardening callouts derived
DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.
- No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-119, a class-level weakness. Rules are authored against its narrower children: CWE-823.