Severe Zoom Vulnerabilities Allow Malicious Meeting Participants to Take Over Your Device

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Researchers identified critical vulnerabilities in Zoom that allows a full device takeover with no user interaction, and present on all devices.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/12/severe-zoom-vulnerabilities-allow-malicious-meeting-participants-to-take-over-your-device/
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Zoom is a no bueno

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Yeah but it’s widely used so the impact of a vulnerability like this could be massive.

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I’m not a fan of Zoom but run it in browser when I have to.

From the article:

Zoom’s browser client has no annotation or whiteboarding at all, and what it does run is sandboxed

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