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Ineffective user bans

Moderate
antobinary published GHSA-wxjp-h88g-7fqg Dec 15, 2022

Package

bbb-apps-akka (BigBlueButton)

Affected versions

<v2.4-rc-6

Patched versions

2.5-alpha-1, v2.4-rc-6

Description

Impact

The attacker could register multiple users, and join the meeting with one of them. When that user is banned, they could still join the meeting with the remaining registered users.

Workarounds

No Workarounds.

References

We improved permissions such that banning a user removes all users related to their extId, including registred users that have not joined the meeting.

Patch in BigBlueButton 2.4-rc-6 | #13766
Patch in BigBlueButton 2.5-alpha-1 | #13262

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Email us at security at bigbluebutton.org

Credits

We thank Nico Heitmann, Sven Hebrok, and Juraj Somorovsky from Paderborn University who examined the BigBlueButton code base and responsibly disclosed this vulnerability.

Severity

Moderate
4.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2022-41961

Weaknesses

No CWEs