BigBlueButton Path Traversal – Reading Certain File Extensions
CVE-2023-42804

3.1LOW

Key Information:

Vendor

Bigbluebutton

Status
Bigbluebutton
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 October 2023

What is CVE-2023-42804?

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 extensions (txt, swf, svg, png). In version 2.6.0-beta.1, input validation was added on the parameters being passed and dangerous characters are stripped. There are no known workarounds.

Affected Version(s)

bigbluebutton < 2.6.0-beta.1

References

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/a...
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https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/15960
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
3.1
Severity:
LOW
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
None
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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