Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-39205

Medium

Published: 14 November 2023

Published
14 November 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0028 51.9th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-39205 is a medium-severity Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions (CWE-754) vulnerability in Zoom Meetings. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 48.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper conditions check in Zoom Team Chat for Zoom clients may allow an authenticated user to conduct a denial of service via network access.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zoom
meetings
≤ 5.16.0 · ≤ 5.16.0 · ≤ 5.16.0
zoom
video software development kit
≤ 1.9.0 · ≤ 1.9.0 · ≤ 1.9.0
zoom
virtual desktop infrastructure
≤ 5.14.13 · 5.15.0 — 5.15.11
zoom
zoom
≤ 5.16.0 · ≤ 5.16.0 · ≤ 5.16.0

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-754

Requires detection and response to audit logging failures as an unusual or exceptional condition.

addresses: CWE-754

Implements detection of unusual or exceptional conditions followed by safe mode entry, reducing the window for exploitation of unchecked conditions.

addresses: CWE-754

Training ensures users perform required checks for unusual or exceptional conditions as part of contingency roles, limiting attacker leverage from skipped validations.

addresses: CWE-754

IR testing directly validates checks for unusual or exceptional conditions that could indicate security incidents.

addresses: CWE-754

Requires ongoing monitoring of organization-defined metrics and analysis, enabling checks for unusual or exceptional conditions.

addresses: CWE-754

Security testing routinely checks for unusual or exceptional inputs/conditions, identifying missing validation steps that flaw remediation then resolves.

addresses: CWE-754

Requires detection of unusual conditions followed by a controlled transition to the defined failure state.

addresses: CWE-754

MTTF determination forces explicit checks for conditions that precede predictable component failure.

References