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
3cpe: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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References
1- github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/9259/commits/b21ca8355a57286a1e6df96984b3a4c57679a463nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
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