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Medium · 4.6 CVE-2024-38518 EUVD-2024-37388

bbb-web API additional parameters considered

Published Jun 28, 2024 · Updated Aug 2, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom designed to help teachers teach and learners learn. An attacker with a valid join link to a meeting can trick BigBlueButton into generating a signed join link with additional parameters. One of those parameters may be "role=moderator", allowing an attacker to join a meeting as moderator using a join link that was originally created for viewer access. This vulnerability has been patched in version(s) 2.6.18, 2.7.8 and 3.0.0-alpha.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
bigbluebutton bigbluebutton < 2.6.18, >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.8, >= 2.8.0, < 3.0.0-alpha.7 —

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