CVE-2022-22780 Zoom Chat Susceptible to Zip Bombing
Attackers can cause denial of service on Zoom clients by sending zip bombs, exhausting system resources.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-22780?
CVE-2022-22780 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Zoom Client for Meetings for Android, published on 9 Feb 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Zoom Client for Meetings chat functionality was susceptible to Zip bombing attacks in the following product versions: Android before version 5.8.6, iOS before version 5.9.0, Linux before version 5.8.6, macOS before version 5.7.3, and Windows before version 5.6.3. This could lead to availability issues on the client host by exhausting system resources.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22780?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Zoom Meetings.
How do I fix CVE-2022-22780?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-22780 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2022-22780 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22780 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Zoom Client for Meetings for Android
- CVE-2021-33907 Code injection in Zoom Client for Meetings for Windows
- CVE-2022-28768 Local Privilege Escalation in Zoom Client Installer for macOS
- CVE-2022-28763 Improper URL parsing in Zoom Clients
- CVE-2022-28757 Local Privilege Escalation in Auto Updater for Zoom Client for Meetings for macOS
- CVE-2022-28751 Local Privilege Escalation in Zoom Client for Meetings for MacOS
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xpj5-4mpq-74xf.