React Native is a mobile application framework that is most commonly used to develop applications for Android and iOS by enabling the use of React and native platform capabilities. These days, it’s become increasingly popular to use React across platforms on all of your properties (sometimes the same code), including any mobile applications a company has to offer.

Last week, Jonathan Leitschuch wrote an excellent blog post covering the vulnerabilities within Zoom’s Mac client. Jonathan’s research was independent of ours, and since the vulnerabilities are now patched, we wanted to disclose a remote code execution with the same root cause, and share our story of coming across the initial privacy issue and escalating it into something much worse.

When Assetnote Continuous Security (CS) monitors your attack surface, one of the things it looks for are instances of WebPageTest. WebPageTest is a website performance testing tool that lets you test network related metrics for any given URL/host.