CVE-2020-12443

CRITICAL

BigBlueButton <2.2.6 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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

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