Bigbluebutton

BigBlueButton through 2.2.28 uses Ghostscript for processing of uploaded EPS documents, and consequently may be subject to attacks related to a "schwache Sandbox."

The installation procedure in BigBlueButton before 2.2.28 (or earlier) uses ClueCon as the FreeSWITCH password, which allows local users to achieve unintended FreeSWITCH access.

An issue was discovered in BigBlueButton through 2.2.29. When at attacker is able to view an account_activations/edit?token= URI, the attacker can create an approved user account associated with an email address that has an arbitrary domain name.

The installation procedure in BigBlueButton before 2.2.28 (or earlier) exposes certain network services to external interfaces, and does not automatically set up a firewall configuration to block external access.

BigBlueButton before 2.2.27 has an unsafe JODConverter setting in which LibreOffice document conversions can access external files.

BigBlueButton before 2.2.5 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive files via Local File Inclusion.

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4-rc-6 are vulnerable to Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data. The moderators-only webcams lock setting is not enforced on the backend, which allows an attacker to subscribe to viewers'…

In BigBlueButton before 2.2.28 (or earlier), the client-side Mute button only signifies that the server should stop accepting audio data from the client. It does not directly configure the client to stop sending audio data to the server, and thus a modified server could store…

BigBlueButton before 2.3 does not implement LibreOffice sandboxing. This might make it easier for remote authenticated users to read the API shared secret in the bigbluebutton.properties file. With the API shared secret, an attacker can (for example) use api/join to join an…

In BigBlueButton before 2.2.28 (or earlier), uploaded presentations are sent to clients without a Content-Type header, which allows XSS, as demonstrated by a .png file extension for an HTML document.

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. This vulnerability only affects release candidates of BigBlueButton 2.4. The attacker can start a subscription for poll results before starting an anonymous poll, and use this subscription to see individual responses in…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. In versions prior to 3.0.19, the recording playback (presentation format) was not sanitizing user's input in public chat. This allowed for a malicious actor to craft and carry out a targeted XSS attack, activated on anyone…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. Versions prior to 3.0.24 have a missing authorization that allows viewers to inject/overwrite captions Version 3.0.24 tightened the permissions on who is able to submit captions. No known workarounds are available.

BigBlueButton version 2.4.7 (or earlier) is vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the private chat functionality. A threat actor could inject JavaScript payload in his/her username. The payload gets executed in the browser of the victim each time the attacker sends…

BigBlueButton Greenlight 2.11.1 allows XSS. A threat actor could have a username containing a JavaScript payload. The payload gets executed in the browser of the victim in the "Share room access" dialog if the victim has shared access to the particular room with the attacker…

BigBlueButton through 2.2.28 records a video meeting despite the deactivation of video recording in the user interface. This may result in data storage beyond what is authorized for a specific meeting topic or participant.

BigBlueButton before 2.2.28 (or earlier) does not set the secure flag for the session cookie in an https session, which makes it easier for remote attackers to capture this cookie by intercepting its transmission within an http session.

PILOS (Platform for Interactive Live-Online Seminars) is a frontend for BigBlueButton. Prior to 4.8.0, users with a local account can change their password while logged in. When doing so, all other active sessions are terminated, except for the currently active one. However, the…

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4.0 expose sensitive information to Unauthorized Actors. This issue affects meetings with polls, where the attacker is a meeting participant. Subscribing to the current-poll collection does not update…

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4-rc-6 are subject to Ineffective user bans. The attacker could register multiple users, and join the meeting with one of them. When that user is banned, they could still join the meeting with the…

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4.3, are subject to Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity, resulting in Denial of Service. An attacker can make a Meteor call to `validateAuthToken` using a victim's userId, meetingId, and an…

Greenlight in BigBlueButton through 2.2.28 places usernames in room URLs, which may represent an unintended information leak to users in a room, or an information leak to outsiders if any user publishes a screenshot of a browser window.

An issue was discovered in BigBlueButton through 2.2.29. A brute-force attack may occur because an unlimited number of codes can be entered for a meeting that is protected by an access code.

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…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. Versions prior to 3.0.24 have an Open Redirect through bigbluebutton/api/join via get-parameter "logoutURL." Version 3.0.24 has adjusted the handling of requests with incorrect checksum so that the default logoutURL is used. No…

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…

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4-rc-6, and 2.5-alpha-1 contain Incorrect Authorization for setting emoji status. A user with moderator rights can use the clear status feature to set any emoji status for other users. Moderators should…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom designed to help teachers teach and learners learn. An attacker may be able to exploit the overly elevated file permissions in the `/usr/local/bigbluebutton/core/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/gems/resque-2.6.0` directory with the goal…

BigBlueButton before 2.2.7 allows remote authenticated users to read local files and conduct SSRF attacks via an uploaded Office document that has a crafted URL in an ODF xlink field.

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. Prior to 3.0.23, the presentation URL validation did not properly restrict access to site local and link local addresses. The redirect following logic now pins resolved IPs. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.23.

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. Prior to 3.0.21, bbb-web checksum validation could be bypassed when a presentationUploadExternalUrl parameter was supplied to API request handling in CreateMeeting.java and ValidationService.java, allowing a user to send valid…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. Prior to 3.0.21, bbb-web generated conference sessionToken values with insufficiently secure randomness in bbb-common-web/src/main/java/org/bigbluebutton/api/Util.java and bigbluebutton-web/grails-app/controllers/org/bigbluebutto…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. In versions on the 3.x branch prior to 3.0.20, the string received with errorRedirectUrl lacks validation, using it directly in the respondWithRedirect function leads to an Open Redirect vulnerability. BigBlueButton 3.0.20…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. In versions 3.0.19 and below, when first joining a session with the microphone muted, the client sends audio to the server regardless of mute state. Media is discarded at the server side, so it isn't audible to any participants,…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. In versions 3.0.21 and below, the official documentation for "Server Customization" on Support for ClamAV as presentation file scanner contains instructions that leave a BBB server vulnerable for Denial of Service. The flawed…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in versions prior to 3.0.13 allows any authenticated user to crash the chat functionality for all participants in a meeting by sending a malformed `reactionEmojiId` in the GraphQL mutation…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in versions prior to 3.0.13 allows any authenticated user to freeze or crash the entire server by abusing the polling feature's `Choices` response type. By submitting a malicious payload…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. In versions prior to 3.0.13, the "Shared Notes" feature contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability with the input location being the "Username" field and the output location on the "Shared Notes" page, when a…

Greenlight is an end-user interface for BigBlueButton servers. Versions prior to 2.13.0 have an open redirect vulnerability in the Login page due to unchecked the value of the `return_to` cookie. Versions 2.13.0 contains a patch for the issue.

Greenlight is an end-user interface for BigBlueButton servers. Versions prior to 2.13.0 have an open redirect vulnerability in the Login page due to unchecked the value of the `return_to` cookie. Versions 2.13.0 contains a patch for the issue.

When duplicating a BigBlueButton activity, the original meeting ID was also duplicated instead of using a new ID for the new activity. This could provide unintended access to the original meeting.

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. BigBlueButton prior to versions 2.6.12 and 2.7.0-rc.1 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). This issue is a bypass of CVE-2023-33176. A patch in versions 2.6.12 and 2.7.0-rc.1 disabled follow redirect at…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. Prior to versions 2.6.11 and 2.7.0-beta.3, Guest Lobby was vulnerable to cross-site scripting when users wait to enter the meeting due to inserting unsanitized messages to the element using unsafe innerHTML. Text sanitizing was…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. BigBlueButton prior to version 2.6.0-beta.1 has a path traversal vulnerability that allows an attacker with a valid starting folder path, to traverse and read other files without authentication, assuming the files have certain…

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. BigBlueButton prior to version 2.6.0-beta.2 is vulnerable to unrestricted file upload, where the insertDocument API call does not validate the given file extension before saving the file, and does not remove it in case of…

BigBlueButton is an open source virtual classroom designed to help teachers teach and learners learn. In affected versions are affected by a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. In an `insertDocument` API request the user is able to supply a URL from which the…

BigBlueButton before 2.2.7 does not have a protection mechanism for separator injection in meetingId, userId, and authToken.

In BigBlueButton before 2.2.7, lockSettingsProps.disablePrivateChat does not apply to already opened chats. This occurs in bigbluebutton-html5/imports/ui/components/chat/service.js.

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. In affected versions an attacker can embed malicious JS in their username and have it executed on the victim's client. When a user receives a private chat from the attacker (whose username contains malicious JavaScript),…

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Users in meetings with private chat enabled are vulnerable to a cross site scripting attack in affected versions. The attack occurs when the attacker (with xss in the name) starts a chat. in the victim's client the…