CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-29169

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-06-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-06-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-1333, CWE-20

Description

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions starting with 2.2 and prior to 2.3.19, 2.4.7, and 2.5.0-beta.2 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attacks. By using specific a RegularExpression, an attacker can cause denial of service for the bbb-html5 service. The useragent library performs checking of device by parsing the input of User-Agent header and lets it go through lookupUserAgent() (alias of useragent.lookup() ). This function handles input by regexing and attackers can abuse that by providing some ReDos payload using `SmartWatch`. The maintainers removed `htmlclient/useragent` from versions 2.3.19, 2.4.7, and 2.5.0-beta.2. As a workaround, disable NginX forwarding the requests to the handler according to the directions in the GitHub Security Advisory.

Affected configurations

• bigbluebutton bigbluebutton (>= 2.2.0 < 2.3.19) • bigbluebutton bigbluebutton (>= 2.4.0 < 2.4.7) • bigbluebutton bigbluebutton 2.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References