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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2023-33176 EUVD-2023-37359

Blind SSRF When Uploading Presentation in BigBlueButton

Published Jun 26, 2023 · Updated Nov 12, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

BigBlueButton is an open source virtual classroom designed to help teachers teach and learners learn. In affected versions are affected by a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. In an `insertDocument` API request the user is able to supply a URL from which the presentation should be downloaded. This URL was being used without having been successfully validated first. An update to the `followRedirect` method in the `PresentationUrlDownloadService` has been made to validate all URLs to be used for presentation download. Two new properties `presentationDownloadSupportedProtocols` and `presentationDownloadBlockedHosts` have also been added to `bigbluebutton.properties` to allow administrators to define what protocols a URL must use and to explicitly define hosts that a presentation cannot be downloaded from. All URLs passed to `insertDocument` must conform to the requirements of the two previously mentioned properties. Additionally, these URLs must resolve to valid addresses, and these addresses must not be local or loopback addresses. There are no workarounds. Users are advised to upgrade to a patched version of BigBlueButton.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
bigbluebutton bigbluebutton >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.9, < 2.5.18 —

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