CVE-2024-38518

Published Jun 28, 2024

Last updated 5 months ago

Overview

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.
Source
security-advisories@github.com
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
4.6
Impact score
2.5
Exploitability score
2.1
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-284

Social media

Hype score
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