CVE-2024-38518
BigBlueButton Moderation Privilege Escalation
Description
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.
INFO
Published Date :
June 28, 2024, 9:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
July 1, 2024, 12:37 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.5
Exploitability Score :
2.1
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CVE Received by [email protected]
Jun. 28, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Description 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. Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/advisories/GHSA-4m48-49h7-f3c4 [No types assigned] Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/20279 [No types assigned] Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/commit/a9d436accdcd26ea66bed9f391488ac128cd62d1 [No types assigned] Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/commit/ea6e9461dceae8fa593543d8c686f77bb8677e72 [No types assigned] Added CWE GitHub, Inc. CWE-284 Added CVSS V3.1 GitHub, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
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