CVE-2024-38518 (GCVE-0-2024-38518)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-28 20:25 – Updated: 2024-08-02 04:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
bbb-web API additional parameters considered
Summary
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.
Severity
4.6 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-02 19:57 UTC
CWE
- CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/se… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pu… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/co… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/co… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bigbluebutton | bigbluebutton |
Affected:
< 2.6.18
Affected: >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.8 Affected: >= 2.8.0, < 3.0.0-alpha.7 |
guessed |
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"dateReserved": "2024-06-18T16:37:02.727Z",
"dateUpdated": "2024-08-02T04:12:25.127Z",
"state": "PUBLISHED"
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"dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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