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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/mclab-hbrs/BBB-POC
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/9259/commits/b21ca8355a57286a1e6df96984b3a4c57679a463
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0357
EPSS Percentile
87.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-22
Status
published
Products (1)
bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
< 2.2.6
Published
Apr 29, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026