CVE-2024-38518
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-284
Improper Access Control
Publication date:
28/06/2024
Last modified:
01/07/2024
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
4.60
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/commit/a9d436accdcd26ea66bed9f391488ac128cd62d1
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/commit/ea6e9461dceae8fa593543d8c686f77bb8677e72
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/20279
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/advisories/GHSA-4m48-49h7-f3c4



