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CVE-2024-38518

bbb-web API additional parameters considered

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.6.18, 2.7.8, 3.0.0-alpha.7
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • bigbluebutton bigbluebutton

    fixed in 2.6.18; From 2.7.0 · fixed in 2.7.8; From 2.8.0 · fixed in 3.0.0-alpha.7

References 4

GitHub · bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton