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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-46355 EUVD-2026-63680

BigBlueButton: Unauthenticated Session Hijack via Exposed /bigbluebutton/api/handleJoinExistingUser

Published Aug 20, 2026 · Updated Aug 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. Prior to 3.0.23, BigBlueButton exposed /bigbluebutton/api/handleJoinExistingUser through bigbluebutton-web/grails-app/controllers/org/bigbluebutton/web/controllers/ApiController.groovy. A requester able to supply an existingUserID for an active participant could reuse that participant's session and impersonate the participant in the same meeting because handleJoinExistingUser was a routable controller action rather than a private helper. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.23.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
bigbluebutton bigbluebutton < 3.0.23 —

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