Security News > 2021 > April > Zoom Is 16th CVE Numbering Authority Appointed in 2021
Non-profit research and development organization MITRE on Friday announced that video conferencing giant Zoom has been named a CVE Numbering Authority.
Zoom can now assign CVE identifiers to vulnerabilities found in Zoom and Keybase products - Zoom acquired Keybase in 2020 - but it cannot assign CVEs to security holes found in third-party products.
Several potentially serious vulnerabilities have been found in Zoom products after the company's popularity skyrocketed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this month, at the Pwn2Own 2021 hacking competition, two researchers earned $200,000 for a Zoom exploit allowing remote code execution without user interaction.
The organization provides a list of websites and email addresses that researchers can use to request a CVE from a certain company.
A majority are only allowed to assign CVE identifiers to vulnerabilities found in their own products, but some can also assign CVEs to flaws found by their researchers in third-party software that is not in another CNA's scope.