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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 29, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-12443

CVE-2020-12443

Description

BigBlueButton before 2.2.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files because the presfilename (lowercase) value can be a .pdf filename while the presFilename (mixed case) value has a ../ sequence. This can be leveraged for privilege escalation via a directory traversal to bigbluebutton.properties. NOTE: this issue exists because of an ineffective mitigation to CVE-2020-12112 in which there was an attempted fix within an NGINX configuration file, without considering that the relevant part of NGINX is case-insensitive.

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Affected products

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  • cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.2.6
    • (no CPE)range: <2.2.6
  • BigBlueButton/BigBlueButtondescription

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