PT-2020-14743 · Vng · Zalo Desktop

James Lanagan + 1 · Published 2020-08-13 · Updated 2020-08-19 · CVE-2020-16087

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VNG Zalo Desktop version 19.8.1.0

Description An issue was discovered in Zalo.exe that allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on a remote Windows machine running the Zalo client. This can be achieved by sending the user of the device a crafted file.

Recommendations For version 19.8.1.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-16087

Affected Products

Zalo Desktop

References · 5

• 🔥 https://threatspike.com/blog/cve-2020-16087.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-16087 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16087 · Security Note
• https://threatspike.com · Note
• https://github.com/VNG-Zalo · Note