Medium severity · published Mar 18, 2021
CVE-2021-28133
Zoom through 5.5.4 sometimes allows attackers to read private information on a participant's screen, even though the participant never attempted to share the private part of their…
4.3
CVSS
19.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Zoom through 5.5.4 sometimes allows attackers to read private information on a participant's screen, even though the participant never attempted to share the private part of their screen. When a user shares a specific application window via the Share Screen functionality, other meeting participants can briefly see contents of other application windows that were explicitly not shared. The contents of these other windows can (for instance) be seen for a short period of time when they overlay the shared window and get into focus. (An attacker can, of course, use a separate screen-recorder application, unsupported by Zoom, to save all such contents for later replays and analysis.) Depending on the unintentionally shared data, this short exposure of screen contents may be a more or less severe security issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)19.9% · higher than 97% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ZO
Zoom · Zoom
through 5.5.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28133
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28133
Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161897/Zoom-5.4.3-54779.1115-5.5.4-13142.0301-Information-Disclosure.html
Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/48
Third Party Advisory
https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/new-zoom-screen-sharing-bug-lets-other.html
Third Party Advisory
https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2020-044.txt
Third Party Advisory
https://www.syss.de/pentest-blog/syss-2020-044-sicherheitsproblem-in-screen-sharing-funktionalitaet-von-zoom-cve-2021-28133
Third Party Advisory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SonmmgQlLzg
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