Meeting-media pattern disclosure via shared AES-ECB key
Published Apr 3, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024
Cryptographic weakness in Zoom Client for Meetings 4.6.9 and earlier allows attackers to expose patterns in encrypted meeting media. A single AES-128 key encrypts every participant's audio and video in ECB mode, preserving repeated plaintext patterns in captured ciphertext. Exploitation requires access to meeting traffic and its shared key; the published impact is limited to meeting-media confidentiality.
Summary
What happened
Cryptographic weakness in Zoom Client for Meetings 4.6.9 and earlier allows attackers to expose patterns in encrypted meeting media. A single AES-128 key encrypts every participant's audio and video in ECB mode, preserving repeated plaintext patterns in captured ciphertext. Exploitation requires access to meeting traffic and its shared key; the published impact is limited to meeting-media confidentiality.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-11500
- Published
- Apr 3, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-327, T1040
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 3, 2020CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 4, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Attacks
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Citizen Lab AES-ECB meeting-media decryption demonstrationproof of concept · demonstrated
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