Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-39203

Zoom Virtual Desktop Infrastructure ≤ 5.14.13

Published
14 November 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0093 57th percentile
Risk Priority 39 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-39203 is a medium-severity Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value (CWE-789) vulnerability in Zoom Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499); ranked in the top 43% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Uncontrolled resource consumption in Zoom Team Chat for Zoom Desktop Client for Windows and Zoom VDI Client may allow an unauthenticated user to conduct a disclosure of information via network access.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service Impact
Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users.
T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood Impact
Adversaries may target resource intensive features of applications to cause a denial of service (DoS), denying availability to those applications.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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CVE-2023-39205Same product: Zoom Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
CVE-2023-28602Same product: Zoom Zoom
CVE-2023-39199Same product: Zoom Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Affected Assets

zoom
virtual desktop infrastructure
≤ 5.14.13 · 5.15.0 — 5.15.11
zoom
zoom
≤ 5.16.0

Mitigating Controls

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.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly prevent coding flaws that trust unvalidated size values for allocations.

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.

finds

Security testing in development can detect and block excessive allocation flaws before deployment.

prevents

Secure development lifecycle includes input validation and size checks that prevent unbounded allocations.

prevents

Application security requirements mandate bounds checking on size parameters to avoid excessive memory allocation.

prevents

Secure architecture principles require resource-limit enforcement that mitigates uncontrolled memory requests.

prevents

Secure coding standards directly prohibit allocating memory from untrusted size values without validation.

none

Capacity management monitors overall resource use but does not prevent individual allocation bugs.

References