# CVE-2022-29233: Improper access control for breakout rooms in BigBlue Button

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.3.18, 2.4-rc-1
- Published: 2022-06-01 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- bigbluebutton: from 2.2, fixed in 2.3.18; from 2.4-alpha-1, fixed in 2.4-rc-1

## Description

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. In BigBlueButton starting with 2.2 but before 2.3.18 and 2.4-rc-1, an attacker can circumvent access controls to gain access to all breakout rooms of the meeting they are in. The permission checks rely on knowledge of internal ids rather than on verification of the role of the user. Versions 2.3.18 and 2.4-rc-1 contain a patch for this issue. There are currently no known workarounds.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bigbluebutton, upgrade to a fixed version (2.3.18, 2.4-rc-1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/advisories/GHSA-3mr9-p9gw-cf33
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/13117
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/14265
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v2.3.18
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v2.4-rc-1

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