CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-27604

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-10-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-10-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-116

Description

BigBlueButton before 2.3 does not implement LibreOffice sandboxing. This might make it easier for remote authenticated users to read the API shared secret in the bigbluebutton.properties file. With the API shared secret, an attacker can (for example) use api/join to join an arbitrary meeting regardless of its guestPolicy setting.

Affected configurations

• bigbluebutton bigbluebutton (< 2.2.8)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output weakness

References