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A lack of rate limiting on repeated password attempts allowed potential attackers to crack the numeric passcode used to secure Zoom private meetings as discovered by Tom Anthony, VP Product at SearchPilot.
"Zoom meetings are (were) default protected by a 6 digit numeric password, meaning 1 million maximum passwords," as Anthony discovered.
The vulnerability he spotted in the Zoom web client allowed attackers to guess any meeting's password by trying all possible combinations until finding the correct one.
"This enables an attacker to attempt all 1 million passwords in a matter of minutes and gain access to other people’s private (password protected) Zoom meetings," he says.
"This also raises the troubling question a to whether others were potentially already using this vulnerability to listen in to other peoples' call."