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High · 7.5 CVE-2022-29169 EUVD-2022-33571

ReDoS on endpoint html5client/useragent in BigBlueButton

Published Jun 1, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions starting with 2.2 and prior to 2.3.19, 2.4.7, and 2.5.0-beta.2 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attacks. By using specific a RegularExpression, an attacker can cause denial of service for the bbb-html5 service. The useragent library performs checking of device by parsing the input of User-Agent header and lets it go through lookupUserAgent() (alias of useragent.lookup() ). This function handles input by regexing and attackers can abuse that by providing some ReDos payload using `SmartWatch`. The maintainers removed `htmlclient/useragent` from versions 2.3.19, 2.4.7, and 2.5.0-beta.2. As a workaround, disable NginX forwarding the requests to the handler according to the directions in the GitHub Security Advisory.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
bigbluebutton bigbluebutton >= 2.2, < 2.3.19, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.7, >= 2.5-alpha-1, < 2.5.0-beta.2 —

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